A little while ago I watched a video where the guy talked about how walls are only there to keep the people who don’t belong out and if you belong then you need get over that wall. Well there is the walled community of writing that I feel I belong to. Well I guess I shouldn’t say it’s a walled community. I should say that I have made a few of my own walls to keep me out and taking down those walls has been a difficult and painful experience.
It’s funny because there are certain places where writing scares me. MS Word is like Pavlov’s bell. It induces a fear just at the sight. The backend of WordPress does not scare me at all. I could write here all day long. I would like to think since leaving university that I have improved, but I still have a number of hang-ups surrounding a lot of creativity writing.
I had a brilliant idea today in the shower. Why don’t I just write here. So that’s my new idea to get me a step closer to dropping a few walls, as it were. I think the approach I will take is just some form of automatic writing. So, it’s not going to be anything mastered/edited. Just a space for writing.
I see there being positives and negatives to this approach.
Positives:
- I would be writing
- I would be sharing
- I would have a forum for feedback/thoughts
- This blog would live up to the name a bit better
Negatives:
- People could steal (but that’s always a possibility)
- It could be argued that the initial writing stages are extremely intimate and are too raw to share
- I would be showing work that was entirely raw and inherently intimate
- It wouldn’t be my best work
I am going to give this a try and see if it works. I will create a new category and call it writing or something like that. So, if all of a sudden, you see some really strange script that doesn’t look like my usual posts… now you know.
Thoughts?
This is a good idea!
I’m not sure how you feel about Google Docs, but it’s a simple and clean word processor that feels more like WordPress’s back end than it does like MS Word. That might solve your problem, and prevent you from having to publish things that you don’t want stolen. Plus, it has the added benefit of being accessible from any computer with web access, so if you have a brilliant idea while you’re at work, you can quickly write it up in Google Docs, and then access the document from home when you have the time to clean it up and edit the rough version you tossed together during your coffee break.
I can’t believe you rickrolled your readers.
>:P
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Oooh. I forgot about smiley’s this is what I meant.
Mom: Thanks mom.
Adam: Yeh, it’s a good idea and I have done it before. The idea of being stolen from doesn’t really worry me. In one sense, it could because I am naive and it hasn’t happened to me before. On the other hand, I am willing to trust the internet to a certain level and currently openly displaying my writing is fine by me.
Leah: Stay on topic, honey.
Positive – Curtis can trash talk!!! and get to write a little although not really creative…
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