Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007
05:57:50 -0800
From: bronax
<bronax@verizon.net>
Subject: On
Writing (your emails helped me)
To: John
John
Your emails on the Writing
pursuits are very helpful. I pasted them into documents on my hard drive. Good
to get your perspective and the concepts from the TV show you watched were good
too. Actually I'm a pretty prolific writer and so getting started is not the
problem exactly. I've actually written a novel-- and I enjoy the writing.
George B.
Time to rewrite the novel, from inside out. You have done
more writing than I have, so I don't understand your concern about writing. Did
you mean you want to make your living doing this? Getting Published? Getting
read?
You provided insights into
style when we spoke on the phone-- "Don't do it like you are writing a
report, it's more like belching." I liked that a lot. I want to censor
myself less and make more effort to get my writing out in public.
George B.
I think you and your brother self censor a lot. Who did you
learn this from , your DAD or MOM?
It's always a challenge to
get your work published, and good not to expect anything in that regard. But
your words that "Writing is a trust exercise. Shows you are ok. Shows you
are valuable. Someone important (you) values what you think and say and listens
politely and attentively and actively."
John
Funny that's what I do on my job for
other people. So as a writer I'm doing for myself what I provide for others,
the students, at work.
George B.
That's it. I hereby give you official permission, to do
things just for yourself.
John
Thanks for you comments. I
value these four emails you sent with a Writing Theme connecting all of them.
Especially like this--
"Do the content first, worry about the form later."
George B.
You can always hire a family member, editor, or critic,
or secretary or personal assistant (is there any other kind?), to tidy up
things for you, sweep up the shavings,re
sharpen and put away the tools. Reprogram the computer, ad toner to the
printer, etc.
John
Great advice!
George B.
Be sure and begin, Lets compare places in life. You are
my only peer, etc.
John
Glad to hear your house is
paid off in July! That makes you close to a millionaire-- house rich! You're
part of town looks very stimulating-- and you can actually do things without
driving 50 miles or rather sit in gridlock on the highway like most people in
LA. What's the official name of your community?
George B.
I live in that little burg of LA called Mar Vista.
It isn't on the maps officially. My address says Los Angeles, California
90066-4918, not Mar Vista. Up from Venice the big east west steet, there is
Grand View Boulevard, rising up into Mar Vista Hill, i.e., big view from the
hill, of the ocean. That is what it means, sight of the ocean, Mar Vista.
I switched from my antireligious sunday morning
fare, HellRaiuser 4, Bood Line, movie in which the gold puzzle box I have a
model of on my TV, features prominently. Now I am watching black and white
Twilight Zone episodes, in which every Hollywood character actor and actress
appeared. Great Stuff. Twighlght Zone had the best short episode writing on TV.
Went to bed watching specials, Soundies, then early Rock and Roll history of
Jerry Lee Lewis.
John
Well, it's the weekend. I
hadn't been to my computer and so got four emails from you at once.
George
I tend to attend to it twice a day, morning and
night. Every week I run my Anti Virus program, and my disc defragmenter. Then
once a week or so, I manually erase from my email all the items in my sent and
delete folders. Cleans out things. Wish I could do as well with the house
cleaning.
Other favorite quote from
you is... "Welcome aboard the ship of life!"
George B.
I tell kids in class this: look down at your feet. This
is where you are, always. To change your position, you have to expend energy,
and move, and control the movements. School is where you learn to do all this
so you can do it alone for yourself every day.
That's a classic. Your
email commentaries have really inspired me!
George B.
Just belching out the moment's thought.
I appreciate your
intellectual peregrinations. I seem to benefit from your style of thinking and
free-form self-expression. I think I've been hemmed in by adhering to my state
job for 13 years and the conformity required for survival at my job must have
crept into my bones.
George B.
I think you just early on developed this as a survival
habit, and now are noticing how life constraining it is. You can expand a bit,
without doing any damage.
John
Thanks for your sharing!
See-you,
John
George B.
Ok John, I got recorded message from you yesterday.
Identified: John, Texas. Thanks. Next time add time of day, your day,
as I think I am three hours earlier than you are. Also, send me an email with
your current address, tel number, cell tell number, so I can write them down
and put them into my cell phone memory, etc. Knee a little bit better today.
Went to bed at 9:30 pm, up and at 'em at 3:30 am. Cooking soup veggies now:
water, chicken broth, leeks, carrots, onions, cabbage (green and red), celery,
and half an apple, broccoli. Later, I will add some garbanzo beans and another
bullion beef or chicken cube, and it will be ready, with addition of some ramen
chicken noodle mix, to make up another batch. I eat a little every day, usually
for breakfast. Warm and yummy. Also, I added pepper.
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