... contemplating one more design change ...
March 30, 1999
5:31-7:04 a.m.
For reasons no one should possibly be able to fathom, Michelle Shocked will forever be linked to K. D. Lang in my mind. It all has to do with a "trick" my parents and I played on Lisa some years ago that was so good the story still gets dragged out now and a again at family gatherings. Anyway, I've got Michelle Shocked playing on the CD this morning.   Wow. What got into me Sunday, eh? Made good progress on the new fantasy story over the past couple days--yes, I had wanted to finish it this past weekend, but things dragged a little. Should finish the first draft today or tomorrow. I've been reading it back to myself as I go in a lot of places--something I often do, but usually only after the whole piece is complete. Almost every new writer hears this piece of advice shortly after they begin writing. "Read it aloud." But it was a long time before I ever really did that, and if you're being slow on the uptake of this particular habit, I recommend you reconsider. Among all the advantages reading your work gives you (finding clunky passages and places where the music isn't there) is the fact that reading your work aloud forces you to take time. Reading my work aloud brings the setting to me, suddenly I am there, immersed in the story and able to see detail that was invisible before. Now moved to Quadrophenia on the CD. Well, didn't quite finish. But, then, tomorrow is another day. Another chance. Just what I need, eh? Take it easy.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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"I live alone and my neighbors think I have a very active and busy apartment. But all the voices are me and mine or us and ours." Allan Gurgus author of The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All on reading material aloud |
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