#peterelbow

[phoenixwritings]

While writers paid contribute to Peter Elbow, he still jot down notes. I’m so awe struck. He reflected on believing game and discuss on how to heal a nation. #peterelbow #freewrite #awp19 #believinggame https://www.instagram.com/p/BvnJvv2hUCL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zbm5hqyxx2kz

[moonleaflove]

“In your natural way of producing words there is a sound, a texture, a rhythm—a voice—which is the main source of power in your writing. I don’t know how it works, but this voice is the force that will make a reader listen to you, the energy that drives the meaning through his thick skull.” ~Peter Elbow #peterelbow #onwritingwell #thetextureofyourwords #rhythmofyourvoice #yourenergyforce #yourwrittenvibe #aprilsunset #caliset #aprilshine #norcalsunset #redbluffcalifornia 🍃☀️🍃

[moonleaflove]

“A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one’s mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods ... But one’s daily routine is also a choice, or a whole series of choices. In the right hands, it can be a finely calibrated mechanism for taking advantage of a range of limited resources: time (the most limited resource of all) as well as willpower, self-discipline, optimism.” ~ Peter Elbow #peterelbow #onwritingwell #solidroutine #wellworngroove #selfdiscipline #optimism 🍃☀️🍃

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[compoundedthoughts]

Writing Unmasked

By: Yudi Lewis

This one is for the writer in all of you. Peter Elbow in his book Writing With Power discusses the mutual exclusiveness that is needed when writing something. Be it creative copy, or a business memo. On one hand you need to let your words flow: humorously, creatively, or informatively. And on the other hand, we’re constantly editing ourselves as we work, checking the grammar, the sentence structure etc.

The solution is an old one, as Hemingway once said, “Write hot, and edit cold."  Get your words down, in their big bulky uncomfortable sentences, and then attack them with garden shears. (Luke Sullivan). 

Digging for gold requires mountains of dirt and stone to be moved. So to with writing, you need to build mountains of crappy sentences and wrong words, to find those beautiful paragraphs that shine so brightly on the empty white background.