Honesty, Writing, Improv
A quote from each of the last couple of 'invitations' I've read in The Right to Write:
If you keep writing, you'll publish. If you keep focusing on publishing, you may not write.
It is almost impossible to be honest and boring at the same time.
Apropos of the latter, one of the improv books I've read is Truth in Comedy. Its thesis: get up there and be honest. The laughter of recognition will get you much further and much more reliably than cleverness. Or, as Steve Barnes puts it in his audio writing course, "You can run out of clever, but you can't run out of you."
I don't know, Zed...I know some terminally boring people who could have done with some omissions. A little mystery keeps things interesting, too.
Posted by Mris on July 12 2002 13:23