What's Your Writing Problem?
Every great writer has a quirk in his writing process that
makes him go back and rewrite, revise, edit, restructure, and sometimes even scrap his work. This is normal!
That's what this page is for.
In order to show that we're all in the same boat, we add some of our
writer-friends' quirks, (and one or two of our own) in the hopes that readers become empowered in writing and in
editing their own work with an objective eye.
Deb, the owner of Sawa-Lad, cannot type! Her fingers simply
don't match the (lightning) speed of her thought processes. How does she deal with it?
With patience and more than a little editing.
She also uses way too many extra superfluous words to write a proper sentence
properly, too.
Please email us at SawaLad@yahoo.com if you'd like to share your techniques that get you through the writing process.
Others?
(Judy edits and writes part-time for Sawa-Lad's,
and is never at a loss for words!)
Aids to Writing:
Caffiene-lots and lots of it. In hot or cold form,depending on the weather and chocolate forms at any time. And
spell check.......lol.
A major impediment to my writing process is simply sitting myself down to DO it. There is that niggling whine inside
ones head that says-"Who wants to read this farfalonous?" So kicking this gremlin to the curb,where it belongs, is what
I have to do.
After that, with the aid of an objective eye to double check my spelling and punctuation and to supply
feedback about the storyline and affirmations (to keep above said gremlin cooling its heels), it's all systems go!
Judy
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Wa alaikum salaam
One
of the things that stops me dead in my tracks is that it seems like it has
all been said. I start and then realize it's
not new. I'm not sure it *has* to
be "new" but still, it stops me.
jazakiAllah khayr
Sr. Hiba
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My
Frustrations as a Writer:
I am a terrible typist. I had to drop out of typing in high school. In
fact the teacher
advised me against looking for a "secretarial" position
(remember I am going on 61 years so that was appropriate for that
time in
my life). I never memorized the typewrter keyboard and that has carried
over to not memorizing the computer
keyboard. So what does this have to do
with writing?
Well when I am on a roll...creating content...especially dialog...
I just
hate it that I have to stop and put in quotation marks and commas and such.
I sometimes lose my train of thought!
Then if I don't look at the keyboard
and then look at the screen... what I have typed is gibberish! If I am
writing
notes, in cursive, when I return after a period of time I have one
heck of a time trying to figure out what I wrote! I
think faster than I
can type or write.
This is why I rely heavily on the services of a professional editor. I
would
be lost without editing to fix all my typos and omissions.....typing
half of a complete thought.
If I could afford
to have a secretary to dictate to and then have my work
transcribed and edited I would be elated.. but that isn't gonna
happen
anytime soon...like never. <grin>
Widad
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Bismi Allahi er-rahmaan er-raheem
Assalam Alaikum
What I have found is lacking
in many writings,is depth.
It does not matter what subject you write about or if this subject
has been written about
a hundred times.
We all love someone, but each one of us love each other in a
different way.
That's what interests
me in reading something.
People make this mistake. They want to tell a story because it is
important to them at the
time, but they forget to think deeply about
the ideas they are using. So sometimes it sounds like a copy.
Is it a story
that comes right from the bottom of your heart or are
you writing just because it is fun?
Writing from the heart cannot
be bad, I think.
Sometimes I stop writing because of that.
wassalam
Sis Soumy
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