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vivalargo
Apr 13, 2005, 6:55 PM
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It can help to artificially divide various aspect of writing, such as craft vrs. content (some think the craft IS the content), facts, figures and information vrs. experience, thinking vrs. feeling, art vrs. technique, and so on. Find out where your talents naturally flow, and concentrate on that. But also work on your weaknesses. Many people can learn to be solid journalists (imparting information), but literature and story telling (imparting experience) is, I believe, more of an innate, as opposed to a learned, faculty. Of course, seminal journalists like Liebling could handle both genres at once, but few others can.
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maculated
Apr 13, 2005, 8:43 PM
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In reply to: I also learned that I need to put a lot more effort into my work instead of donig it the night before and turning it in.
Writing is a process. Good, honest work doesn't happen the night before. I know. I write 20 page papers the day before they are due and I get B's. I wonder why.
Hell, I just got proofs back on an article going in a magazine soon and I slapped myself upside the head for a bunch for stuff I missed on the edit stage.
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Apr 14, 2005, 4:30 AM
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I think one the biggest problems is when your writing something you know what your writing and all that stuff is going through your head just not down on the paper.
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