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Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by cisse7575(m): 5:37pm On Mar 03, 2015 |
Getting Started: Good writing depends on practice, like sports; the more limbered up you are the better you perform But how do you pass through that first, often terrifying, encounter with the blank page and find a voice A voice that will carry your thoughts and feelings with eloquence and flair You have lots of ideas, but little confidence in your ability to express them What if it comes out wrong? What if it makes you look childish or naive? What if you can't do it? The blank page seems to taunt you with your own underconfindence; it points to all the great works that have gone before and says, you can't for that, or what's the point? It's all been said already The ream of sentences, the characters, the ideas that drove you to the page in the first place wither into nothing Suddenly the whole project becomes impossible and your desire to write remains just that The only way to overcome this problem is to write Get some materials down on paper However rough and ready Start off with notes, fragments, half sentences, until stuttering stops and you find yourself writing whole sentenced, paragraphs, pages. Often the first hurdle is the writer's own self-consciousness about the act of writing itself And that hurdles might well take a few pages to clear, like an old car with dirty petrol tank; the first few miles will be a juddering, stop-start journey. Be prepared for this. You are engaging with something unfamiliar to you, don't expect to produce a master piece in your first attempt Start off with what you had for tea, the last phone call you made, the colour of your lovers eyes, Your favorite CD. Give yourself a subject and write about it Write about it without stopping or correcting yourself, for five minutes Just generate some pages, a body of work Then read it back to yourself This will be hard: a first time encounter with your own work is not dissimilar to watching yourself on TV or hearing your recorded voice for the first time-do I really sound like that? Oh no, I never knew I looked like that You might well be embarrass and dissapointef So this is a rite of pasage Good radio presenters listen to thier voice over and over so they can control and improve their pitch and delivery In same way, good writer will read through their own writing, looking for sentences that can be improved, pushed further, expanded, cut It is only when you have developed a sense of your fictional VOICE that you will really have the confidence to jump in and write a story, a poem or a play However, paradoxically, it is only through writing that you will develop a sense of what your voice is Your fictional voice is not a million miles away from how you speak A good storytelling voice is a more honed and structured version of speech and it is as individual to you as your fingerprints Look at the poem or novel you read What kinds of voice are clamouring for your attention on your bookshelf You are likely to find to find lots of disparate voices talking, all with different accents, references, cadences, obsessions. Voice in fiction or poetry can be interpreted as perspective or personality It is different from style, which is something that you can develop later to created effects. A poem I wrote when I wrote my waec still sounds like me in my 20 Perhaps it is a sad reflection on my continuing juvenility or more seriously, it is the thread of me-ness that runs through my work, the personality that inhabits all the words i write 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by Nobody: 5:44pm On Mar 03, 2015 |
I don't know what this is all about But it look front pagic So ama just stick around |
Re: Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by cisse7575(m): 5:57pm On Mar 03, 2015 |
oloyolo:it has been modified |
Re: Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by Nobody: 6:07pm On Mar 03, 2015 |
cisse7575: Beraa still sticking around |
Re: Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by yuzjet(m): 10:22pm On Mar 03, 2015 |
Can somebody brings a topic to start with? |
Re: Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by texanomaly(f): 9:22pm On Mar 08, 2015 |
How did I miss this. Nice job Cisse. |
Re: Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by AlfaSeltzer(m): 9:27pm On Mar 08, 2015 |
texanomaly: Why I started following you beats me. See where you led me to. What the hell is this place? |
Re: Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by texanomaly(f): 9:35pm On Mar 08, 2015 |
AlfaSeltzer: Because you love me. |
Re: Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by cisse7575(m): 1:38pm On Mar 22, 2015 |
texanomaly:Because you are out there, teaching, explaining and reading to the students. You are one of my mentors here.... |
Re: Getting Started: Poetry Whatsapp Speech By Cisse by rudepen(m): 11:44am On Mar 30, 2015 |
#sneaks in |
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