Go to WRITERS WRITE
- Add a comment
- Go to Read Aloud to Make It Right
beachbelle,
I know, Darlin', but I believe in giving credit where it is due and I think your post probably got my three remaining brain cells going.
posted by
notapoet
on December 3, 2003 at 6:54 AM
| link to this | reply
Notapoet honey
I wasn't suggesting you used my idea. It was just to say that we are on the same page. We so often are
posted by
beachbelle
on December 3, 2003 at 6:20 AM
| link to this | reply
beachbelle,
Sorry Darlin', I didn't make the connection until you pointed it out. I guess I just never considered political rhetoric to be any kind of example of writing: good or bad. I did read your post and enjoyed it. Maybe that is what set me off on my post. Thanks.
posted by
notapoet
on December 3, 2003 at 6:17 AM
| link to this | reply
Notapoet sweetheart
This is the point I was making in So You Want To Be AWriter yesterday .... where there is an example of somsomeone who didn't do that
posted by
beachbelle
on December 3, 2003 at 4:53 AM
| link to this | reply
Tamara
No way you're getting old, Babe. I think the reason more writers don't discuss this nifty little trick is that in order to admit you use it, you also have to admit that you talk to yourself. Lots of us are already sensitive about the myth of writers being someone strange. I don't know how such a myth could have ever gotten started.
posted by
notapoet
on December 3, 2003 at 3:48 AM
| link to this | reply
Man, and I just thought I was getting old....
I've been doing this for a while now, but thought it was just something crazy that worked for me.
posted by
Tamara99
on December 3, 2003 at 3:19 AM
| link to this | reply