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RE: Weekend Freewrite experiment
You are amazing!!! Of course we've all been after to you to take up freewriting, having seen how beautifully you write about every-day life and little goats. This, though - you call this a "first" attempt and "very clumsy" - what are you, a J.K. Rowling in hiding? A famous writer in cognito, hiding on a goat farm?
Lines like this just don't come from amateurs: the kind of smoldering anger that is normally reserved for political discussions and family reunions. Wow! I am in a aw!e (The envy, I'm trying to shove aside to make room for some self confidence.) :)
I know! I'm green with envy too! I can see @goat-girlz mind doing the dance as I read it.
I'm totally performance anxiety ridden now!
And she starts with a weekend freewrite no less.
@goat-girlz likes and rises to a good challenge apparently.
And she starts with a weekend freewrite no less.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was trying not to think about that part too. FIRST freewrite, AND a 3-parter. Gaaaahhh!!!
But don't you go getting intimidated. You are a born writer. I'm convinced @goat-girlz is a secret now-in-hiding best selling novelist. :) No other explanation will allow me to retain a shred of dignity as a writer!
Sheesh, you guys! Thank you so much for all the praise! I was totally winging it, running into the kitchen every five minutes to restart the timer. It was pretty fun, I have to say. I will definitely try it again.
I am beginning to rue the day we encouraged you to write more. You had distractions, no less, and it was FUN, you say, and you wrote such a clever tale so swiftly. Ok, if you're really the 82-yr-old **Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936), “the chief shaman of the paranoid school of American fiction”, I guess I'll feel honored to be in such good company. :)
Sadly, I only dream of being Don DeLillo. He's a bit of a hero of mine. Next weekend should be calmer. Only four dogs, and the kittens have moved out! Maybe I will be able to make it a little longer.
You're channeling one of the best, if "channeling" (being inspired by) is the right word. You have a gift! Don't work it too hard - just let your thoughts run free, and later, see about revising, tightening, or expanding. :)
It felt like really good exercise. I wasn't sure if I could pull off fiction, but once I finished the first sentence it just came out. Very cool feeling! I need to figure out where to find the daily prompts. Freewritehouse?
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Happy to hear you tried it and liked it - and so did everyone else!
Easiest way to find prompts is to check out @mariannewest.
Also, volunteers deliver prompts on certain days, and/or if you posted that day.
I'm actually Don DeLillo.