If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit (w/linked toc)
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (980 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003O68EXW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 458 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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If what you write bores you, it will bore other people." And just because If You Want to Write is passionate, sincere, and even spiritual, do not think it is not also witty. It is not yet deeply enough imagined." Finally, "whenever you find yourself writing a single word or phrase or page dutifully and with boredom, then leave it out. Beginning writers will certainly be encouraged by Ueland's words, but even the most experienced have much to glean from Ueland's simple wisdom. "Everybody," writes Ueland in the opening chapter, "is talented, original, and has something important to say." Finding that something important involves embracing creative idleness ("the imagination needs moodling-
Try not expressing anything for twenty-four hours and see what happens. But it must be from his true self and not from the self he thinks he should be. Jennings at Johns Hopkins, who knows more about heredity and the genes and chromosomes than any man in the world, says that no individual is exactly like any other individual, that no two identical persons have ever existed. Everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.And it may comfort you to know that the only people you might suspect of not having talent are those who write very easily and glibly, and without inhibition or pain, skipping gaily through a novel in a week or so. I am sure of that. But these, too, were talented underneath. Music is singing them. Religious men used to go into the wilderness and impose silence on themselves, but it was
"A Great Tool for Unearthing Your Inner Creative Genius" according to Charlene Rubush. Brenda Ueland, an esteemed writing teacher, was said to have written 6 million words in her lifetime of 9A Great Tool for Unearthing Your Inner Creative Genius Brenda Ueland, an esteemed writing teacher, was said to have written 6 million words in her lifetime of 93 years. She said she had two rules that she absolutely followed: To tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do.Euland's first chapter title states: "Everybody Is Talented, Original, and Has Something to Say". Wh. years. She said she had two rules that she absolutely followed: To tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do.Euland's first chapter title states: "Everybody Is Talented, Original, and Has Something to Say". Wh. Inspiring-ish I bought this ebook because it is on Guy Kawasaki's top ten book list.This book is in fact inspiring if you want to write. It basically tells you to develop your own voice and write what you have to say. Surprisingly, it was originally published in 1938, which makes the writer's journal entries that much more interesting but also les. Wonderful book to stir up the creative juices in all Patti Mallett Wonderful book to stir up the creative juices in all of us, not only writers. She speaks in a way no other writer I've read does, and she moves me to action while taking joy in it in a fresh new way.