Writing (the process), When It's Good
May. 1st, 2007 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdaySo much of what I've written has started with the word "yesterday." Or, if not with the word, with the idea of yesterday. Maybe it's just what we do as writers. You know, look back at our experience and try to discover meaning. Or maybe just hope for that. Because sometimes that's all there is, just the hope.
And it's funny how, in a given moment, events can seem to converge, cross through, a single word. Like yesterday. Yesterday the word, not yesterday the point in time. Which is another thing about writers. Pick a word, any word, that's where it can start.
But after that, where does it go, where does it end? Again, hopefully, in meaning. Because, when it happens, that can be good...
LPK
LiveJournal
5.1.2007
And it's funny how, in a given moment, events can seem to converge, cross through, a single word. Like yesterday. Yesterday the word, not yesterday the point in time. Which is another thing about writers. Pick a word, any word, that's where it can start.
But after that, where does it go, where does it end? Again, hopefully, in meaning. Because, when it happens, that can be good...
LPK
LiveJournal
5.1.2007
