And so the blogging begins.
The primary purpose of this blog is for fulfilling an aspect of my graduate work at Seton Hill: analyzing the contract books I read each semester. I am realizing, however, that there’s another very useful aspect to this: in analyzing others, I hope to examine my own writing, perhaps pushing past some of the blocks and struggles I experience when working on my novel.
Bluntly put, I need a place to do some one way venting. And I’m going to assume, as I go through this process, that it’s a normal part of being a ‘new’ writer. I have a great many frustrations in regards to my efforts. Frustrations regarding style, character, plot, dialogue and most importantly, theme. I wish I could say I had these elements all firmly planted in my head, just ready to come out on paper. But I don’t. Bits and pieces come to the forefront, surfacing from my head and then like fish in an ocean, they sink below to what often feels like unfathomable depths.
I have to play fisherman and pull them out. Somehow I think I need a bigger boat. The trick now is to figure out how to build it.
Sunday, March 21, 2004
A non-routine look at the pen, the quill, the keyboard and most importantly, the written word.
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