I usually just lurk on matociquala's LJ but thought your point:
Yes, there is. There is the one rule, the god of rules, the only commandment a writer need worry about (except all the others) -- make it work. And it's a lot harder taskmaster than most new writers believe it to be.
was so apt that I had to delurk. I am the aforementioned new writer. Journalistically published, fictionally - not yet. It's nice to hear work, graft and technique, affirmed. One can be inspired and 1,000 words can spill out easily, but not all those words are worth keeping and not all will seed others.
My point? Not much of one. Just that I like what you wrote and it currently resonates. Sometimes the real graft is in figuring out why it almost works but doesn't.
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Date: 2005-09-26 10:10 pm (UTC)I usually just lurk on
Yes, there is. There is the one rule, the god of rules, the only commandment a writer need worry about (except all the others) -- make it work. And it's a lot harder taskmaster than most new writers believe it to be.
was so apt that I had to delurk. I am the aforementioned new writer. Journalistically published, fictionally - not yet. It's nice to hear work, graft and technique, affirmed. One can be inspired and 1,000 words can spill out easily, but not all those words are worth keeping and not all will seed others.
My point? Not much of one. Just that I like what you wrote and it currently resonates. Sometimes the real graft is in figuring out why it almost works but doesn't.