“yes!”
- January 2014
- Hi Steph
hi steph,
I figure as a writer, it must be mysterious wondering how things your write, resonate (or not) with your readers.well, I felt compelled to reply “Yes!” when I read this paragraph (below) in your ‘about me‘it jumped out from your typical writing style…you tend to write longer, more involved sentences? (which I love)..but then here you jump to staccato machine-gun fire, as if Marc Twight had grabbed the keyboard.
Like you had to get these points through the static, and the sentences had been honed razor sharp. Extra adjectives and adverbs unnecessary.
the one sentence I loved; ” It’s easy to confuse intense emotion with fear. Intensity is what you came for; don’t irrationally try to run away from it.”. …I’ve read it twenty times already.
the full paragraph:
“You have to do what feels right, what lights you up. Do your best always. Conserve. Never waste anything. You can only have what you can carry—choose it carefully, make it last, take care of it. Appreciate what you have for as long as you have it. Be ready to do without it. No matter what happens, deal with it. Adapt, instantly when necessary. Take care of yourself. Try to help. A lot of times you fail, sometimes you succeed. Either way, you’re never the whole reason for it. It’s easy to confuse intense emotion with fear. Intensity is what you came for; don’t irrationally try to run away from it. You never know what’s going to happen, even in the next second. Every decision you’ve made was the best one you could have made at the time: remember that when bad things happen. Things will not stop changing. No matter what, the only thing you can count on is yourself.”
You like recipes. That’s a recipe paragraph. I like it.
thanks
-kevin
Hi Kevin,
It is great to hear your thoughts, and I really appreciate your writing to me. Thank you so much–I’m glad it struck a chord with you. I do hate it when Mark tries to get the keyboard from me: I don’t want to hurt him, but sometimes we’re just left with no choice.
Steph
