Aw, thank you! I'm pretty thrilled too - I always used to read other writers talking about the pleasure of writing, and think 'well maybe that's just not possible for me' and yet now I'm feeling it, and that makes it worth it just for that enjoyment!
I'm looking forward to seeing what comes up through the next bits of the process as I start working on what is more recognisably 'writing' and editing - but at least now I feel like I have an approach that I can go back to - and a frame of reference (in the riding) that has worked for me there... Completed stories, here we come! ;-)
Mary Wanless does teach clinics in the US - so not impossible for you, maybe, at some point? I've also found her books really helpful - I particularly love 'For the Good of the Rider' (which was written as a pair with 'For the Good of the Horse') and the most recent RWYM CLinic book, but her earlier books are also really full of interesting things - it's definitely something you can get at least part of the way on your own with - though having a second pair of eyes to check your noticing (and someone to talk it through with) helps things move more quickly!
I don't know why the Nano approach didn't work for me - I think maybe I needed to go a few levels deeper and unpick things there in terms of the things I had managed to get hung-up in my head first... Brains are funny things!
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Date: 2010-05-11 02:56 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to seeing what comes up through the next bits of the process as I start working on what is more recognisably 'writing' and editing - but at least now I feel like I have an approach that I can go back to - and a frame of reference (in the riding) that has worked for me there... Completed stories, here we come! ;-)
Mary Wanless does teach clinics in the US - so not impossible for you, maybe, at some point? I've also found her books really helpful - I particularly love 'For the Good of the Rider' (which was written as a pair with 'For the Good of the Horse') and the most recent RWYM CLinic book, but her earlier books are also really full of interesting things - it's definitely something you can get at least part of the way on your own with - though having a second pair of eyes to check your noticing (and someone to talk it through with) helps things move more quickly!
I don't know why the Nano approach didn't work for me - I think maybe I needed to go a few levels deeper and unpick things there in terms of the things I had managed to get hung-up in my head first... Brains are funny things!