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Lazy Sam's Blog Entry
Yesterday, during the soccer game, I had a breakaway on the goalie. I charged down the left wing and kicked a rocket shot at the goal.
--The end.
Once, in my days as a woodshop teacher, I was watching some fourth graders cutting wood in the shop. Afterwards, I asked them what they did in shop today. They all said they were working on some project or another. So I asked them "specifically" what they did in shop, and they all said, "We cut wood." I asked them one more question: "Did you cut the board all the way across?" They looked at me like I was an alien. "Of course" they cut the board all the way across!
I thought to myself, that's the way we should approach our writing in our journals. We don't have to make a tremendous project everyday, but we do have to cut the boards all the way across; we have to get from the start to the finish of our thoughts; we have to follow our thinking long enough for it to be a complete thought--a board cut all the way across.
So, whenever and whatever you write, don't stop until you've finished. Make everything you write, no matter how brief, have a beginning, a middle and an end. If you are writing a song, finish a verse. If you are describing a game, tell us about at least a part of the game all the way through. (see above)
Something in me is convinced that getting from the beginning to the end is the life blood of a writer and a thinker. I don't want you to rush, but I do want us to slog through the mud of our lives.
Tell me about your journey.
More importantly, show me the mud!
2008-01-21 22:20:51 -0500
Cutting the Board
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