100 words a day

[vaneramos]

I completed my first batch of entries at 100words.com: one hundred words every day for a month. It can now be viewed publicly:

100 Words - June 2003 - Silvan

I took the advice of the webmaster and resisted the temptation to read my entries after I had entered them. This evening, reading the entire voyage, I am moved. The tone is consistent. It uncovers my best writer's voice, which is intense and visual.

Tonight I received a kind email from someone happy to see another gay voice contributing to the site.

I hadn't planned on doing it again. But reading what I wrote last month, I think I must continue.

Comments

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

P.S.

Ever notice how much my journal is about thoughts in my head

You would see how much complaining, analyzing and brooding I do if you read my handwritten journals. You won't see them unless you outlive me, except for the parts that morph into something higher. I mostly use LJ to experiment with creative writing. That's why I tell so many stories here.

I would like my intuition to produce some more mature, thoughtful and even philosophical writing. But at this phase of my life that function is busy struggling with some basic problems like self-confidence, unemployment and resentment towards my parents.

Perhaps you will notice that my comments reveal a different aspect of my from the things I post in my journal. I put more thought into my comments.

My creative writing is highly spontaneous. It doesn't seem to come from myself at all. The task of the writer is to get his personality out of the way so the universe can blast something beautiful on the page.

Here is another way of looking at it. My creative work is often penned as quickly as I can, without stopping to analyze or critique. I believe I rely much more on my subconscious mind which picks up all those sensory details my intuition ignores. I sometimes recover memories this way. It's a bit like dreaming or being under hypnosis.

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

"busy struggling with some basic problems like self-confidence, unemployment and resentment towards my parents"

Item 1, check, item 2, thank goodness no, and hugs, item 3: my lord, I spent YEARS on that, know just how it feels.

"The task of the writer is to get his personality out of the way so the universe can blast something beautiful on the page."

Grin. This may explain why I never felt like a particularly good writer. My personality obsesses me! :)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

You are a fine writer, obviously more interested in writing social commentary than literature. There is nothing inferior about that.