Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Let It Go

Has anyone notice that the more we let go of our writing the more that reflect us.

For example, when we quit be so protective of our ideas and others question or add to those ideas, we dig deep for relevance and meaning.

If our compositions are our kid, let's not be overprotective parents.
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6 comments:

  1. bobbi_24July 1, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    I'm finding, though, that more insight I find in my writing, the more scared I am in sharing it with others. It's becoming real. It's speaking the very essence of who I am, what I think, how I feel, what I hope for, what I'm frightened of...What if you don't get that? I'm scared to think about how that would then affect me.

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  2. ZachGibbonsJuly 1, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    Nice, Ron.
    I enjoy your symbolic mind.

    To further the metaphor, we must let our essays play, get dirty and ultimately reflect us (because like it or not kids do this). As Gibran said, Though our children come through us, they do not belong to us.

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  3. tonyasmithJuly 1, 2009 at 12:35 PM

    Just have a good cry over it and some of the fear will subside. I realized some things about myself last night, also. I was alone, I cried, I'm over it.

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  4. Robin WhiteJuly 1, 2009 at 12:36 PM

    I know what you mean with this. I have felt this becoming very real and it is scary. Like Anna said earlier, it's so easy to censor ourselves but for some reason with this, I feel compelled to let that go.

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  5. markJuly 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    We're being intimate with (relative) strangers. In this community, we come face to face with the audience. It's usually just me and the text. There are so many textual moves or devices that I (customarily) hide behind. I notice my students making the same moves. I often hide behind the surface of my essays.

    This afternoon, during the interview/poem/dialog assignment, I almost skipped the poem. For me, the formal demands of poetry are impossible if I want to stay true to the integrity of my subject. But if I let the poem go where it goes, then finding a form for it is easy. In the debrief we talked about writing as "work" and "play." I don't think it's merely a question of attitude. Finding the words that reflect honest perception--that's work.

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  6. brianJuly 1, 2009 at 12:47 PM

    I can identify. Maybe I'm being overprotective.

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