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Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #976498
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#384394 added November 7, 2005 at 5:51am
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No mind.
I was talking with susanL the other night when she gave me an interesting bit of advice. We were talking about my writing and I asked her what she thought I could do to improve on it. She said she felt I needed to write it with the passion I seem to reserver for other topics. An example of this is when I talk to her about politics or something I feel strongly about.

She explained that when she reads my stories it seems like I hold back. She says it almost always seems like it borders on a fine line between losing control and remaining restrained. She suggested that I do a bit more freewriting and keep up on my reading.

Today I wrote a bit more on my Sauriel piece trying to keep that in mind as I focused on the story. When I finished and gave it to her she felt I had made a great difference, but in writing it like that I felt different. I wrote two full solid pages in the blink of an eye and time just seemed to slip away. For once I stopped writing the story thinking, "Would this how I would want this character to act like" and let the character decide for themselves. It was interesting, and different.

Let's hope it keeps working like that ;)

But I'm out for the night. Or morning. Or whatever you people want to call it. The sun has yet to come up ;)

Night.

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