Those who don't have a natural talent for writing must gain the ability through hard work and desire.
If you start out by comparing yourself to other genius writers you'll always want to fail. Even if you surpass those authors with time, you'll never realize or admit it.
As soon as you stop focusing on your desire to excell, you will excell. Do all you can to develop your skills and then just let your writing take its course naturally.
The man inhabiting my profile picture (the one sticking his tongue at you) is the quintissential (sp?) example of not starting out that great. You have the passion...just give it time. I know you can succeed at anything you put your heart too. And in the honest sense, not the touchy-feely sentimental crap sense.
You know. I hate whiny crap like this. WHy? I do it myself quite a bit and you are privy to it through my journal.
What I hate more than whiny crap such as this is the inability to recognize self-talent. I just read that post four times. WHy? Not because I did not understand it. Not because I was wondering why the fuck you were writing it. No, because I had to enjoy it so much more. With each read, there were subtleties in the beauty of it's essence. That's one class piece of emotion and words.
"...a force to inspire future generations to read, to learn, to write, to exercise their minds, to think, to philosophize, to carry something other than nihilistic pessimism or hopeless angst, to have some sort of aspiration to change the world, to hope, to try, to dare, to accomplish, to achieve... But do these even carry any correlation to writing?" If everyone who put pen to paper had such goals the average public might be coaxed into putting down the remote.=P
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hufsa, you are already a fine writer and your determination to aspire higher is admirable. i, too, feel frustration at my own writing, but cannot find the words to convey such a foul feeling. you, however, expressed that frustration so poignantly in this entry. that must mean something. don't worry too much, though, for everything takes time.
thoreau once said, "how vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." (as a thoreau fan, you have probably seen this before...) of course, i am, by no means, insinuating that you are vain, but it's better advice than anything i've ever given. :)
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If you start out by comparing yourself to other genius writers you'll always want to fail. Even if you surpass those authors with time, you'll never realize or admit it.
As soon as you stop focusing on your desire to excell, you will excell. Do all you can to develop your skills and then just let your writing take its course naturally.
Good luck.
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I know you can succeed at anything you put your heart too. And in the honest sense, not the touchy-feely sentimental crap sense.
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What I hate more than whiny crap such as this is the inability to recognize self-talent. I just read that post four times. WHy? Not because I did not understand it. Not because I was wondering why the fuck you were writing it. No, because I had to enjoy it so much more. With each read, there were subtleties in the beauty of it's essence. That's one class piece of emotion and words.
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"...a force to inspire future generations to read, to learn, to write, to exercise their minds, to think, to philosophize, to carry something other than nihilistic pessimism or hopeless angst, to have some sort of aspiration to change the world, to hope, to try, to dare, to accomplish, to achieve... But do these even carry any correlation to writing?" If everyone who put pen to paper had such goals the average public might be coaxed into putting down the remote.=P ( ... )
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thoreau once said, "how vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." (as a thoreau fan, you have probably seen this before...) of course, i am, by no means, insinuating that you are vain, but it's better advice than anything i've ever given. :)
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I lubba you.
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