This is really useful. Great advice, thanks. And I love the connections that lead you to some of these topics.
I heard Amy Poehler making similar points about improv a few weeks ago. She notes that you can't be halfway in and that you have to be a good listener, listening to yourself as well as everybody else. I think she also advises to forget about being cool and keep observing until you've identified the key transaction going on. I wondered how to apply points like this to writing practice and I think you've just answered that!
Ooh, I must look Amy Poehler up - and yes, I think all of those can be mapped onto writing practice. Definitely you can't be halfway in. (I also feel this with reading) Good point about "keep observing" - it is possible to plunge in to early, I think, using our default, usual habits and ideas instead of holding back and watching and thinking ...
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This is really useful. Great advice, thanks. And I love the connections that lead you to some of these topics.
I heard Amy Poehler making similar points about improv a few weeks ago. She notes that you can't be halfway in and that you have to be a good listener, listening to yourself as well as everybody else. I think she also advises to forget about being cool and keep observing until you've identified the key transaction going on. I wondered how to apply points like this to writing practice and I think you've just answered that!
Ooh, I must look Amy Poehler up - and yes, I think all of those can be mapped onto writing practice. Definitely you can't be halfway in. (I also feel this with reading) Good point about "keep observing" - it is possible to plunge in to early, I think, using our default, usual habits and ideas instead of holding back and watching and thinking ...