Showing posts with label escaping into the open. Show all posts
Showing posts with label escaping into the open. Show all posts

Monday, December 6, 2010

To Write It

"My partner listened quietly, as he always does when I tell him all the details of the things I've seen. He knows I have a need to tell stories. But whenever I say them out loud, there is something missing for me. To really tell a story, I need to write it. It's then that I understand what it is that I'm really trying to say. I find the deeper meaning--and the deeper satisfaction.

The same is true of many others..."
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Elizabeth Berg, a preface to encouragement
in Escaping Into the Open:
the Art of Writing True
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I am one of those others.
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It's why I write. And why I dream of sharing my writing with others, aim for publication, so that I may understand myself, and thus be truly understood by you.