all at once
One of the most helpful things I’ve read about writing is by Peter Elbow in his book Writing with Power. He observed from his own struggles with writing that the problem he had was having too many ideas at once. “Blocked writers suffer from too many ideas more often than too few.” I picture the image of trying to type too fast on a typewriter and the keys getting jammed together.
I am feeling some of that as I try to approach writing down the ideas bouncing around from my first few weeks of grad school. (Mixing metaphors, but these ideas do seem more like bouncing balls in an model of an excited gas, rather than typewriter keys.)
One of the main things to learn about writing is how to eventually focus on one idea at a time, in each paper and in each paragraph.
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September 26th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
the imagery is so great!