Comments on: This essay is really hard to write http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/05/23/this-essay-is-really-hard-to-write/ writing, mothering, writing about mothering Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:42:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Yondalla http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/05/23/this-essay-is-really-hard-to-write/#comment-5092 Yondalla Thu, 24 May 2007 13:51:08 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1338#comment-5092 I tell my students when they are having trouble writing a paper to sit down and write a letter to a friend telling her/her ABOUT the paper. Complain about how difficult it is to write, about what you think you are going to write about it, what you think you want to say about it. Then print the letter, allow to sit for one to two days, and re-read. I assure them the bulk of the paper is probably there. They tell me it generally works. I tell my students when they are having trouble writing a paper to sit down and write a letter to a friend telling her/her ABOUT the paper. Complain about how difficult it is to write, about what you think you are going to write about it, what you think you want to say about it.

Then print the letter, allow to sit for one to two days, and re-read. I assure them the bulk of the paper is probably there.

They tell me it generally works.

]]> By: JanO http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/05/23/this-essay-is-really-hard-to-write/#comment-5091 JanO Thu, 24 May 2007 12:15:03 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1338#comment-5091 Aw, buddy, I'm sorry you felt alone in this. I just chatted up a writer friend of mine after AGONIZING over a small, barely-paying piece. I wanted to quit writing forever but instead called her. She told me she recently heard fabulous storyteller Anna Quindlen say she hates to write -- but she loves having written. And so it is with all of us. I'm with Susan. I could never be a solitary writer either. Aw, buddy, I’m sorry you felt alone in this. I just chatted up a writer friend of mine after AGONIZING over a small, barely-paying piece. I wanted to quit writing forever but instead called her. She told me she recently heard fabulous storyteller Anna Quindlen say she hates to write — but she loves having written. And so it is with all of us. I’m with Susan. I could never be a solitary writer either.

]]> By: Susan http://www.thiswomanswork.com/2007/05/23/this-essay-is-really-hard-to-write/#comment-5090 Susan Thu, 24 May 2007 06:10:26 +0000 http://www.thiswomanswork.com/?p=1338#comment-5090 Cheer cheer! And I can never be a solitary writer, either. Cheer cheer! And I can never be a solitary writer, either.

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