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On this blog, neurodivergent (dyslexic) author Leanne (Willetts) Dyck ("dihck") publishes her short stories for adults and children. She is writing (picture books and middle grade fiction) for children, (memoirs and upmarket fiction) for adults and knitting books. Thank you for visiting and sharing this blog. Your support is greatly appreciated.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
A Cure for the Jealous Writer (article) by Leanne Dyck
In Natalie Goldberg's book Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within she cautions against being jealous of other writers. She writes 'Don't make writers 'other', different from you... It makes it hard to become good if you create that duality...
If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.'
Now instead of thinking: Oh, I could never write like that. I'm not a writer. I should never touch a pen again.
I think: That's a well-written sentence/paragraph/chapter/story. It really works. The technique employed may work for the sentence/paragraph/chapter/story I'm currently writing. It may work even better if I tweak it, slightly.
If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.'
Now instead of thinking: Oh, I could never write like that. I'm not a writer. I should never touch a pen again.
I think: That's a well-written sentence/paragraph/chapter/story. It really works. The technique employed may work for the sentence/paragraph/chapter/story I'm currently writing. It may work even better if I tweak it, slightly.
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