{"id":15944,"date":"2014-01-24T05:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T05:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/24\/littlepuppyfromthefreezer-iamthefirechild-10\/"},"modified":"2014-01-24T05:46:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T05:46:20","slug":"littlepuppyfromthefreezer-iamthefirechild-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/01\/24\/littlepuppyfromthefreezer-iamthefirechild-10\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

littlepuppyfromthefreezer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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littlepuppyfromthefreezer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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littlepuppyfromthefreezer<\/a> replied to your post<\/a>:<\/span>you guys do realise you don\u2019t have to follow me\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
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-shrug- its only polite. and i mean you write so theres at least one thing i can learn from you<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

practise makes perfect, and the only way to get better is to keep trying. I spent college learning that the most important opinion of my work was my own \u2014 and that nothing I ever did would seem good \/enough\/ to me. So if I can see the scene in my head, I don\u2019t spend \/hours\/ trying to get it out exactly right. It\u2019s not going to happen. I put it down as clearly as I can, and tweak words here and there, and let it go.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

i find my writing style is different from that. its heavily based on emotion. even if another character isn\u2019t involved. emotion affects how people perceive and i try to capture that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s a perfectly good way to do it \u2014 I just work pretty hard on not criticising myself a lot after I write it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

i just need to stop myself from filtering what i write. and finding the perfect word. that\u2019s always hard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jesus christ yes. It helps to have a big vocabulary there. But I’ll admit, there’s times when I head off to thesaurus.com because I need just the right word. Then there’s times when I’m like, ‘bugger this’, and slap down whatever I can think of that’s closest. And if I’ve spent more than a couple minutes flailing for the word, it’s time to stop, because I’m not going to find it.<\/p>\n

The other thing I constantly remind myself is that familiar words, ordinary words, like ‘said’ and ‘eyes’, are not BAD. These are the necessary building block words, the ones that call up immediate responses and pictures in people’s minds. Altering them makes readers stumble, they have to reparse the sentence because they aren’t sure they read that right. If I’m looking for just the right word, it better be about precision of description and not about flamboyancy for the sake of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

littlepuppyfromthefreezer: iamthefirechild: littlepuppyfromthefreezer: iamthefirechild: littlepuppyfromthefreezer replied to your post:you guys do realise you don\u2019t have to follow me\u2026 -shrug- its only polite. and i mean you write so theres at least one thing i can learn from you practise makes perfect, and the only way to get better is to keep trying. I spent college … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1481,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}