[stylist] Something to ponder

[Barbara Hammel]

I think in that case you'd have to have a vivid imagination.
Example, in a story I was writing, one of the children died.  After losing 
my own baby, I went back and read what I'd written some ten years before and 
it was spot on.
Yet, mostly, if you've not read or talked to someone who has experienced the 
thing you want to write of, it would be tough.
Barbara




Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. -- Carl Sandburg
-----Original Message----- 
From: Bridgit Pollpeter
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 4:02 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] Something to ponder

For argument's sake, how do you tap into emotions and experiences you
haven't dealt with or met people who have dealt with them and shared
their experiences with you? And can your story have true depth without a
personal connection to emotions, thoughts and feelings? Can research
alone replicate certain emotions and experiences?

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter, editor, Slate & Style
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/

"If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can
satisfy, we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for
another world."
C. S. Lewis

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Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:38:14 -0800
From: vejas <brlsurfer at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Something to ponder
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I disagree with this statement because I feel that writing is a
part of living.  You don't have to do lots of great things in
your life to be a writer.
Vejas


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