Fwd: [THE PARASITORIUM] do you
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From: Elizabeth Anne Ensley
Date: Nov 26, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [THE PARASITORIUM] do you
All of the above, whether I'm writing the horror (this is a horror group, you know), fantasy, or even SF. Some humor, some non-humor, but the humor tends to seep into the darker stuff. Have you ever noticed that a bit of humor in a dark story tends to give it that edge that makes it more human--and therefore, more plausible?
Er, although I write more from my keyboard then from my heart and soul. See, the only way I could use my heart to get the words down is if I cut it out to sue it on the keyboard, but then I wouldn't get the words out because--well, you know. And if I tried to write with my soul--well, the ancient meaning of soul was what folks think of as the human body.
As for involving one's self in what one writes, that's two-edged at best: you have to be dispassionate enough to realize that the words you so frantically work to get down on paper, in a computer file or on a tape recorder will need editing, or at the least a good once-over. You have to be passionate enough to care about what you write and to keep sending out your stories, despite rejections, because you believe in them, but dispassionate enough about your stories that if you've made a mistake and an editor points it out to you (an act of supreme kindness), that you will not get upset over it and you will perhaps even look at your story and decide if you really should change it, or if changing it would change the tone of your story, and then you look at the surrounding prose to see if there's any way you could justify or clarify your decision with a little judicious editing--painting a new line here, painting over an arc there.
And I think that's the longest response I've given to anything in this group in quite some time. *grin*
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From: Elizabeth Anne Ensley
Date: Nov 26, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [THE PARASITORIUM] do you
All of the above, whether I'm writing the horror (this is a horror group, you know), fantasy, or even SF. Some humor, some non-humor, but the humor tends to seep into the darker stuff. Have you ever noticed that a bit of humor in a dark story tends to give it that edge that makes it more human--and therefore, more plausible?
Er, although I write more from my keyboard then from my heart and soul. See, the only way I could use my heart to get the words down is if I cut it out to sue it on the keyboard, but then I wouldn't get the words out because--well, you know. And if I tried to write with my soul--well, the ancient meaning of soul was what folks think of as the human body.
As for involving one's self in what one writes, that's two-edged at best: you have to be dispassionate enough to realize that the words you so frantically work to get down on paper, in a computer file or on a tape recorder will need editing, or at the least a good once-over. You have to be passionate enough to care about what you write and to keep sending out your stories, despite rejections, because you believe in them, but dispassionate enough about your stories that if you've made a mistake and an editor points it out to you (an act of supreme kindness), that you will not get upset over it and you will perhaps even look at your story and decide if you really should change it, or if changing it would change the tone of your story, and then you look at the surrounding prose to see if there's any way you could justify or clarify your decision with a little judicious editing--painting a new line here, painting over an arc there.
And I think that's the longest response I've given to anything in this group in quite some time. *grin*
On 11/26/05, L. U. wrote:
write from ur heart and soul... putting part of u into what u
create...writing from the experiences of ur life.... writing of the things
that piss off others but that u know u can get away with in a work of
fiction?
Or do u write of the fanciful, far removed from self?
Or do u feel there is no way to not leave part of self in ons craft?
Lator gators
Lis
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posted by Liz | 6:09 PM
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