There is a new playmate in my bookshelf called Creative Writing Course so I can palliate my curse of not feeling creative. Being the book a gift, it might mask the fact that I lack mother nature's gift to write smoothly, and one may be content with that. I am considering opening a new blog, the purpose of which would be to post out-of-place simple texts that other bigger compositions would bully in some kind of hollywood-style high school for abstract texts that I am recreating in my mind because of unavoidable American influences. "Get outta here you motherf*cking training exercise! F*cking tight-ass!", then a naïve listing or brainstorming exercise lacking connectors would be crouching in some corner of this blog. Thus, it could be a good idea not to include them here.
However, every Voilà! requires previous--sometimes hidden--training, for sure. From dancers to cookers, from athletes to surgeons, much of them follow the magicians' principle of never showing your tricks until they become impressive. Not only is it better to practise previously, but it may be a decisive requirement. Please do not cut the woman in half in front of the audience or your chief surgeon. However, some people will be more concerned than others about showing themselves making mistakes, that is, admitting that they are naturally humans and began from the bottom; they will not let you witness their progressive improvement--if any. This fussiness is understandable, although it becomes misleading when other noobs in the subject believe their idols are born geniouses since they do not have access to their idols' failures, which remain out of the public view.
Perfectionism always grows out of a ground of fear, though. After observing extremely demanding people through the years, I came to this conclusion and it made me change my attitude towards myself and others... However, this is a different kettle of fish. The reason why I am thinking over this is that I do not see the point in posting everything I write because some posts will be dull, and this makes me reflect on human façade. Apart from hidding their weak attempts, some people even stop trying because of vanity. Are you vain? Have you ever given up because of a self-imposed pressure to improve? Maybe we do not want to admit that some success comes from isolated luck or inspiration rather than our skills. This would mean that we are not likely to succeed again, which is not a pleasant truth. Still, luck is inefficient if you are not prepared for it. Picasso captures this idea in his quote "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
Could I stop rumbling aimlessly? My point is that I want to keep track of my writing exercises but... you know what, I don't need the constant hesitation caused by having two different blogs so I will publish everything here regardless of its complexity. (I beat about the bush for too long before I make too simplistic decisions that do not match up their previous thinking process...) Wow, the number of "I" words is excessive here. Ok shush.
2 comments:
It's always a pleasure to read you.
I'm still here : -)
-reme
Thank you for both statements Reme :)
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