Excerpt from TAKE JOY: A WRITER’S GUIDE TO LOVING THE CRAFT by Jane Yolen:
Anthony Burgess once said that the dream seldom survives the first paragraph.
And Edith Wharton, quoting an old French proverb, worte, “I dream of an eagle, I give birth to a hummingbird.”
All writing is about that gap — no, that chasm — between expectation and final product. A veritable Grand Canyon, it is the very thing that induces writer’s block.
I say that we writers should just expect that disappointment, not be surprised by it. Expect it, sidestep it, move on.
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Comment by kim — March 8, 2006 @ 11:52 am
This passage really spoke to me. I think every writer probably struggles with whether or not the writing lives up to the imagination.
Comment by Rhonda — March 8, 2006 @ 8:09 pm
Kim, the contest winner for February is Deborah Oller. I just got my March updates in…very late. :crazy: Bad Jen.
Yep, Rhonda. I have this vision and then it never turns out that way.
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