tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587083790012339479.post8289807793458508301..comments2023-06-23T09:21:12.107-06:00Comments on Fiction Matters: Ray Bradbury's Three Rules of WritingBonnie Grovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11377519561074174038noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587083790012339479.post-30615808955110378262008-08-28T09:49:00.000-06:002008-08-28T09:49:00.000-06:00Oh you so get three points!Here, take six points!I...Oh you so get three points!<BR/><BR/>Here, take six points!<BR/><BR/>I agree, the throw up in the morning is about getting the words out of your head and onto the paper. In whatever way they come out. Fearless writing. No (inner) critics allowed.<BR/><BR/>Clean up at noon: Later, when the swooning passion of writing is over, then go back, clean up, tighten the phrasing, turn the metaphor, brighten the meaning, take away all but the best prose, the things you meant to say.<BR/><BR/>Then again, I could be barking up the wrong tree, but that is what Randy and I (and the other's at the party) came up with.<BR/><BR/>Oh here, take nine points!Bonnie Grovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11377519561074174038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2587083790012339479.post-70924097000960633952008-08-27T12:35:00.000-06:002008-08-27T12:35:00.000-06:00"Throw up in the morning and clean it up at noon"...."Throw up in the morning and clean it up at noon"...Yeah, I do that every day, figuratively, in one way or another. Dishes?? Meh. After writing time. Editing and fine-tuning? No, later! Just get it all down!! I have a harder time doing it with writing than the rest of life, though.<BR/><BR/>Point #4 is interesting--do everything in love. I think this guy has learned how to live.C.L. Dyckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12231606806986839196noreply@blogger.com