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Saturday 18th October 2008.
What is it that makes a good writer?
Is it someone who makes the correct choices in the way they word things? Or someone who never makes a mistake? Or someone that knows the meaning of every long word? Or is it someone who stumbles over their words, makes a few mistakes along the way and takes a few wild guesses sometimes?
There are the amazing writers of all time that are household names; Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens... We can all analyse their writing to death and discover meanings in their work that they probably didn’t even realise were there, but is that what writing is really about?
Shouldn’t writing be there to express yourself and maybe entertain one or two people a long the way. It’s to get a message out of your heart and into the minds of other people. It isn’t to get scrutinised to the fine core until there’s no passion left.
Writing should come from the heart, not from the brain.
Girl stumbling.
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The brain is like the sieve, though, through which the heart's tumblings, tremblings and turnings fall. If the holes in the sieve are too big or too small the writing is either compromised or plain inefective. In order to make the heart to speak, you need the brain engaged.
Good writing is like constructing an argument - like ideas, thoughts need to be tested by being aired, analysed, fought over; even if the process only happens within one's head. Until you've proven your thoughts, you're not writing well.
That's probably both pretentious and untrue a lot of the time. But it feels right.
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