tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981189057702756439.post7010774315153991070..comments2013-12-04T13:10:53.547-08:00Comments on Scribes: The GrooveScribblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04483272349318155382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981189057702756439.post-89023563266245066112012-04-01T14:29:49.151-07:002012-04-01T14:29:49.151-07:00When I get into that kind of highway hypnosis of w...When I get into that kind of highway hypnosis of writing, every word seems so true. It's what makes writing so much fun. No wonder people don't really want to change any of it.allUzombieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13775265431706648283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981189057702756439.post-84372198860832461912012-02-16T15:48:14.552-08:002012-02-16T15:48:14.552-08:00Hi, Snake -- Your observations are very trueHi, Snake -- Your observations are very trueconbee35https://www.blogger.com/profile/05485763573102834456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3981189057702756439.post-17090465281859926902012-02-15T11:28:06.986-08:002012-02-15T11:28:06.986-08:00I completely agree! As a teacher of writing, my fi...I completely agree! As a teacher of writing, my first task is almost always to help my students make a conscious mental distinction between their creative selves and their critical selves. I tell them that when they compose a draft, they should go fast, take chances and make mistakes. Their critical selves, I tell them, should come out only after the euphoria of the creative act has left traces of its presence to fill the empty pages. <br /><br />As liberating as my advice may sound to beginning writers, however, it creates exactly the type of defensiveness your post describes! They love their creations because they love the feeling of creating! Why “destroy” what they associate with such pleasure? <br /><br />In graduate school, I took a creative writing seminar with a very famous and frequently anthologized poet. Every week when I proudly submitted my poems to her for class, she asked me, “Is it birth or defecation?” Too many times, she provided me with the answer!<br /><br />Yes, Professor Scribbler, we love our muses, but what have they left us at the end of the bacchanalia? <br /><br />--SnakeUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13488211694076820452noreply@blogger.com