Comments on: The music of writing http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/ writer Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Cyndi Tefft http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1414 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:48:43 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1414 Beautiful piece. Loved it!

]]> By: KJames http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1057 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:55:42 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1057 Penny! You let chocolate hit the floor? Tsk. Um… got any left you might want to share?

You know, I’ve read your work and you are such a talented writer, with years and years of experience behind you. It’s humbling to think you’d find value in anything I might have to say about writing. Thank you. Keep writing; the world needs your stories.

]]> By: Penny http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1056 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:08:23 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1056 Well what can I say? As I stood in my kitchen with chocolate dripping off my fingers I cried. What a beautiful analogy. It makes me want to go back and work harder to finish my manuscript and write some more short stories. To practice my piece until it is perfect. Beautiful. Thank you.

]]> By: orangehands http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1055 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:52:37 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1055 LOL. Thanks.

]]> By: KJames http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1054 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:48:43 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1054 Nah, you’re just a good dad. Even though I give her grief about it here, I really miss hearing my daughter practice. It was like listening to a piece of her soul. Probably why she’d never let me sit in the same room while she was playing. A pretense along the same lines of, “If I close my eyes, you can’t see me.” Kids.

]]> By: jasonamyers http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1051 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:34:06 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1051 This is going to sound weird, but I actually enjoy listening to my daughter practice on her piano, even though she’s not quite that good at it yet.
It’s very soothing to me while I am writing, or reading, or whatever. Maybe I’m just a glutton for punishment.

]]> By: KJames http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1050 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:01:28 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1050 *snort* McB, darlin’, you’re one of the worst. And I love you for it. I’m just amazed you all haven’t given up on me. I owe you so much…

RSS, your voice is magic and your stories are compelling. You are SO close. Don’t you even think about getting discouraged now.

OH, I’ve never known you to be tone deaf when it comes to words. And I do the same thing re getting hooked. If I get a thought in my head and don’t write it down, it cycles there endlessly until I give it voice. Or until I, um, pimp it out. 8)

]]> By: orangehands http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1049 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:56:04 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1049 I like this analogy, though I’m hoping its not accurate as I’ve stopped playing piano and – oh yeah- am tone deaf. But I did have a small light-bulb go off. Like the piano with that one section of notes I’d master and continuously play (until my mother would scream), sometimes I get completely hooked on a line or paragraph and will use it relentlessly in everything until it finds its place. (I don’t kill my darlings, I pimp them out.)

]]> By: McB http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1048 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:52:48 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1048

writers are under so much (well-intentioned) pressure to “hurry up” and finish the darn book

Gosh, really? Can’t think who would do that, she says as she whistles innocently and looks off at nothing in particular.

]]> By: rssasrb http://kdjames.com/2009/09/20/the-music-of-writing/#comment-1047 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:51:29 +0000 http://kdjames.com/?p=416#comment-1047 What a beautiful post, KDJ. Thank you. This will help when I get discouraged and wonder if it is really helping to do yet another rewrite.

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