Why is writing well so difficult?
It seems easy. When we talk, we don’t have difficulty communicating.
Glenn Mori, crafting with words, notes and thoughts
Fiction, jazz, and other stuff!
Why is writing well so difficult?
It seems easy. When we talk, we don’t have difficulty communicating.
It’s amazingly hard to accept and to do critiques.
When I was a music major I always had a teacher; someone that knew a lot more than I did, someone who had years more experience than I did, someone that I trusted. After years of work with the instructors, with the directors, I developed a sense of rightness, of understanding, an ability to see the gaps between was is and what should or could be, and, a sense of how to work at closing that gap.
I don’t read a lot of books when they first come out, I don’t see a lot of movies in theaters or even when they first arrive in DVD format. It could be that I don’t like being part of a crowd, or that I like things to stand a little test of time before I spend the money and time required, but more likely it’s just that I’m lazy and slow.
Recently we bought a new DVD player and with it came a month of free DVD rentals. The first movie that we chose is “Brokeback Mountain”. I’m sure that everyone knows what separates this movie from all other mainstream successful movies; gay cowboys.
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