Be Somebody Else
and write.
This can take the pressure off. Write in the voice of somebody else, one of your students or your mom. Write what you think they would write about something. And if it turns out as less than you'd hoped, blame them. Lower your standards a bit, then go back as yourself and fix it.
But if it turns out better than you hoped, all right then. Put your name on it.
Later today, as Olivia de Havilland, I shall write of beauty, or maybe hunger, perhaps patent law.
This can take the pressure off. Write in the voice of somebody else, one of your students or your mom. Write what you think they would write about something. And if it turns out as less than you'd hoped, blame them. Lower your standards a bit, then go back as yourself and fix it.
But if it turns out better than you hoped, all right then. Put your name on it.
Later today, as Olivia de Havilland, I shall write of beauty, or maybe hunger, perhaps patent law.
posted by Anonymous at 10:25 AM
2 Comments:
This is a great exercise. Kind of like Bidart's dramatic poems in the voice of other people (he did one in the voice of an anorexic.)
Yeah, yeah. I know that poem. It's been awhile, but as I recall it's harrowing.
I sort of see this exercise as a loose way to move toward a dramatic monologue (or something else).
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