Reading jael's journal

*scribble scribble*

Nope that wasn't good enough.

*crumples paper up and throws is somewhere next to the trash can like you see in all those movies*

I've tried so many times to be half of a decent writer... think of something really profound... but it just comes back down to... I'm just not a writer no matter how hard I try to be. It's just the way things are. With a big reluctant sigh.. I resign to fiddling around with my camera...

I'm a photographer I tell myself, I tell stories with the pictures that I take... some to show truth and others to make up a world that people can only yearn to be a part of ... I take photographs to advertise, to document, to capture a moment of life to create thoughts...

So I think to myself again... why is it that I want to be able to write well ... is it better to tell people what to think, or show them a photograph and see how each one reacts and interpret to each one.. thousands of different stories are built and concocted from that one photograph...

Then I smile.... I think I'll be happy with being a photographer... It's okay if I cant think of and write profound ideas... and maybe I'm not one of those great thinkers... but hey... I'll be there to document them =)

there is a stack of papers and a couple of books waiting to be read and studied.... I really should be working... instead of writing thought flows down on NAO

Foosh... Aaughh!!... Foosh... Aauuggghh!! - Cold spray deodorant

This post was edited by jael on Oct 11, 2005.

From where I sit to come face to face with who you are is pretty profound.
That's worth writing about.
Lots and lots of people never get that far.

Thank you harold =)

Foosh... Aaughh!!... Foosh... Aauuggghh!! - Cold spray deodorant

:) Your welcome.

I've tried so many times to be half of a decent writer... think of something really profound... but it just comes back down to... I'm just not a writer no matter how hard I try to be.

There's a secret my college English professor told me:

No one is good at writing. Not the first time, not the fifth time. The thing that makes great writing is making five shitty drafts, thinking about your audience some more, writing two more shitty drafts, sharing it with friends and asking thier opinons, and then you'll get something decent.

And if it isn't decent, at least you've had some fun.

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