tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110107012766586348.post5898593938565678271..comments2023-08-10T03:12:36.037-07:00Comments on LKWatts Confessions: Write For YourselfUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110107012766586348.post-22185472149756874742012-05-27T06:13:34.800-07:002012-05-27T06:13:34.800-07:00Hi Mac,
Thanks for commenting :)I comment on a lo...Hi Mac,<br /><br />Thanks for commenting :)I comment on a lot of blogs - it's a marketing strategy I use :) Although I don't remember commenting on the blog you've referred to. Oh well, nevermind. Perhaps you can provide a link to refresh my memory? :)LK Wattshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09366991733427612418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110107012766586348.post-39379129563738210272012-05-26T20:53:47.706-07:002012-05-26T20:53:47.706-07:00Hi...dropping by after laughing at a comment of yo...Hi...dropping by after laughing at a comment of yours i read on JLMurry blog.<br /><br />Stop bye one day and say hi<br /><br />MacAuthor R. Mac Wheelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15679108828353499313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1110107012766586348.post-8414706868689855522012-05-22T15:34:09.841-07:002012-05-22T15:34:09.841-07:00I’ve just finished watching a documentary on Sky A...I’ve just finished watching a documentary on Sky Arts called <i>Close Up: Photographers at Work</i>. One of the photographers profiled was Jay Maisel who said the following—I ran the tape back to make sure I got it word for word: “The product is a by-product; the act of seeing is the moment of fun.” In other words the photography is almost incidental; being there to see whatever is there to see is what’s important. Having a camera in your hand is often all the excuse you need to be there; you get away with a lot more voyeurism if you have a camera in your hand; it somehow dignifies just standing around staring. (Having a pad and a pencil doesn't quite work.) Not everything that gets seen gets recorded. You can read most of my books in a few short hours but every one of them represents years—literally years—of my life. My books evoke memories you will never be privy to. This is why I don’t understand storytellers, writers whose primary concern is to entertain. There is a need for them and I, along with many others, have taken advantage of them but I couldn’t do what they do. This is why Maisel’s quote hit home with me. I’ve said similar but his quote is far more succinct. I’ve said that, for me, the writing is everything and the work whatever it is, a poem or a story, a novel or even a play can pretty much be discarded once the process of discovery has been gone through. I don’t because I’ve realised that others can get something out of my writing and it’s the green thing to do—I’m being facetious. <br /><br />As regards confidence the confidence that the old demonstrate differs from the confidence of the young in one single regard: the young are confident—cocky more like—because they lack life experience whereas the confidence of the old is rooted <i>in</i> experience. The young <a href="http://www.lexiconplanet.com/patter73_eng.html" rel="nofollow">breenge</a> into situations and sometimes it pays off; the old prepare beforehand, rehearse even and although that doesn’t guarantee success it does raise the odds in their favour. Their life experience may include mistakes but if all we had to do was make enough mistakes and we’d be someone then everyone’d be doing it. Making mistakes is only part of the deal. We have to learn from them and that is incumbent on us; the learning doesn’t come as a natural by-product of the mistake making.<br /><br />I get the idea of a book being a conversation with oneself—that makes total sense to me—and I never think about how others might respond to what I’m writing. As for whether or not I hold stuff back, well, if I knew I was going to destroy the text once finished I might but I do find myself at times pulling my punches. There is no need to be graphic. I was there; I know everything that happened; I just need enough to conjure up the memories. Let others read into the words what they will.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com