Thread: Thinking About Writing

Elsewhere, Divus said if he stops to think about what he’s writing, he loses his train of thought.

If I DON’T stop to think about what I’m writing, there IS no train of thought.

Is there a message there?

we're all different? and for me ...

i write pretty much the same as Divus, i get it out and down, hard and fast with a SPLAT
then i spend the next few sessions going over it with different layering techniques
one that addresses content, the next spelling, then grammar etc etc
until i reach the finished and polished piece
that i'm happy with ...

but that's just me

Hold on -- If you stop to think about what you're writing, you lose your train of thought? Well, if you have a train of thought to begin with, you're thinking. So basically you're stopping to think some more?

Maybe I should of said he loses the flow. Ash seemed to understand it.

Ash I like your advise.
Blackward. It only says something if your not goood at writing.
I personnally write both ways. I liek it better as a 'splat as Ash says. But I think others appreciate it more as a reviewed peice.

Sometimes as I'm just mulling over what I want in my writing, somethings just come to me, and I want to write them out as soon as I can get the chance. I'll write entire scenes and chapters without going to look back over it until I get what's in my head down on the paper, for fear of losing what I have in my mind. I think that's what you mean?

JV

Different trains.

Ox - You and Arc Thomas seem to think alike, and I get the idea he's from Australia. Are you related?

I've never thought about thinking about whether I think about writing when I'm writing.

Originally Posted by garza

Ox - You and Arc Thomas seem to think alike, and I get the idea he's from Australia. Are you related?

Heaven forfend!

How could you possibly think such a low thought?

Maybe it was the use of your real name, Blackward. Haha.

I wonder about this sometimes. When I hand write I might appear to be dyslexic. The real problem is I am already thinking about the words to come later in the sentence, and I'll put a letter in from a future word where it has no place, so keen to get the next bit down, am I. I wonder, would the idea really go away if I just slowed down?

I still don't know. I can't seem to break the habit.

I wonder about this sometimes. When I hand write I might appear to be dyslexic. The real problem is I am already thinking about the words to come later in the sentence, and I'll put a letter in from a future word where it has no place, so keen to get the next bit down, am I. I wonder, would the idea really go away if I just slowed down?

I have huge difficulty writing by hand. My wrist gets sore after a few words and nobody, often including myself, can make out what I've written.

Would the idea go away if I just slowed down is a great question. I like to feel that I'm working with ideas, images, energies or whatever that I'm attempting to tell about, rather than with strictly words. Maybe part of the craft is learning to slow down, stay with, and explore those images so they can be told of in greater detail.