"I write more than I read"
November 21st 2008 06:12
You've got to wonder about people who would drop this line during regular conversation. Admittedly, I am one of them. Its true that it only takes one or two Opinion columns or novel reviews to get the snowball effect, in which ideas begin to flow and creativity - as a refined craft - lets loose as I prepare to wreak havoc on paper.
I know, its shocking. To think of all the truly inspiring writers that have architecturally designed the landscape that is creative non-fiction (anything written that isn't undisputed fact), not one of them would conscientiously make this statement. Taking it back to when the first ever novelists came to be, they would have heard countless oratories and lectures before writing could have ever commenced.
Hence, for those of us who do spend more time writing than reading, we are left with the decision to either keep it in the closet or expose it with a long list of reasoning tactics to back up what is, to the literati, such a disagreeable thing to say.
You are what you eat, we consume to produce, isn't that more of an in one end and out the other theory? We need to go by the examples set by past writings in order to have a framework in which to write for ourselves - a more agreeable point, and one that is deregulating copywrite and providing adherence to the idea of adamant bibliography writers of academia, that no idea is an original idea.
At this point in time, it seems we have a 'touche'.
I absolutely cringe at the saying 'no idea is an original idea,' in the same way the people who say it would cringe at me saying 'I write more than I read.'
Is this something more than an existential dilemma? Should it not be talked about?
I know, its shocking. To think of all the truly inspiring writers that have architecturally designed the landscape that is creative non-fiction (anything written that isn't undisputed fact), not one of them would conscientiously make this statement. Taking it back to when the first ever novelists came to be, they would have heard countless oratories and lectures before writing could have ever commenced.
Hence, for those of us who do spend more time writing than reading, we are left with the decision to either keep it in the closet or expose it with a long list of reasoning tactics to back up what is, to the literati, such a disagreeable thing to say.
You are what you eat, we consume to produce, isn't that more of an in one end and out the other theory? We need to go by the examples set by past writings in order to have a framework in which to write for ourselves - a more agreeable point, and one that is deregulating copywrite and providing adherence to the idea of adamant bibliography writers of academia, that no idea is an original idea.
At this point in time, it seems we have a 'touche'.
I absolutely cringe at the saying 'no idea is an original idea,' in the same way the people who say it would cringe at me saying 'I write more than I read.'
Is this something more than an existential dilemma? Should it not be talked about?
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Comment by Dianna G
I Wish This Was 42
Fictional Worlds
and my social live has grown. But I just got a new book today so I'm going to be doing lots of reading next month.
(And catching up with school...)
I think that writing more than you read is OK some of the time but reading is a lot of fun and you learn things from other writers when you do read.
But you can't say that someone who writes more than they read is doing it wrong anymore than reading more than you write is wrong. There's no wrong way to go about the creative process.
~Dianna
Comment by Mickey
TV Watchers
Hearing that all the good ideas are taken makes me cringe as well.