Book Review:
When I
First started this journey,
I wasn’t sure what I was going to
Expect.
Yet, my expectations
Were exceeded.
But not from the start.
You see,
This book was an
Eye opener
For me.
But I was hesitant at first.
I have been so
Limited my entire writing
Life.
And I didn’t even know it.
The limitations I have felt
Through my
Writing
I believed were
Circumstantial.
The deadlines, the rubric, the rules….
Unfortunately as it turns out, I was limited
Because I did not know how to write.
Not even close.
But now,
I feel clean.
Klinkenborg takes what
We think we know,
Completely disregards it and finds its replacement-
The truth.
It was hard at first,
To be open to learning something completely new.
It was as if
He took everything that I had believed,
And threw it into a fire.
Each ember that sparked out of the scarlet blaze
Symbolized pieces of the old me
Screaming out to be kept alive.
But to be a new me,
I had to learn to let those embers die.
At times,
I felt like he was criticizing me personally,
And I got frustrated.
I was annoyed with the idea that I could be wrong
About something that I love.
How egotistical of me.
Of course I could be wrong.
And soon after I had this realization
I let his words seep into
My newly found skin.
The way he spoke about
Distrusting flow- something
That I thought I should
Value
As a writer,
Captured my attention.
I was a little bit apprehensive
To actually believe what he was saying.
“Flow” is something that I was taught to
Treasure.
But as he explained the thought process behind it,
I began to understand.
Klinkenborg says to
“Depend entirely on the sentence you’re making.”
Entirely on one sentence.
That is what you will use to determine the
Fate
Of the next sentence
And the one after that.
I specifically found comfort in the way
He spoke about
Cliches.
When writing short stories or creative pieces,
I often think that everything has
Already been said.
And yet we continue to say them,
So the cliches continue,
In a long cycle.
But,
What I have come to learn in my time with this book is that, Klinkenborg has a way around the Cliches.
If you focus on the words of the sentence you are
Currently making, and not the
Meaning
Or
Intent
Of the whole piece,
You will
Realize
That the meaning and intent depend entirely on the
Sentence
you are writing right now.
I also found his thoughts about “complete” writing
Compelling.
I am one who will get
Lost
In what I’m writing from time to time.
I find myself
Creating sentences without focusing on what the words
Are
Actually
Saying.
Klinkenborg says that when work is really complete,
The writer
Knows
How each sentence got that way.
That is something that I struggle with.
I use words the wrong way.
I create sentences that make
Absolutely no sense,
And then I look back at them and
Laugh
At myself.
This book has inspired me in ways
I did not know I could be
Inspired by.
Looking into myself as not only a
Writer
But also a
Person.
The time that I have had to
Relfect
On all of my choices,
Writing and in general,
Has
Changed
The way that I think of myself.
I hope that I can
Consistently
Refer back to this book for
Help.
Klinkenborg knows what he is saying,
And I now aspire
To have that feeling-
The feeling of just simply
Knowing
One day.
Book Review:
When I
First started this journey,
I wasn’t sure what I was going to
Expect.
Yet, my expectations
Were exceeded.
But not from the start.
You see,
This book was an
Eye opener
For me.
But I was hesitant at first.
I have been so
Limited my entire writing
Life.
And I didn’t even know it.
The limitations I have felt
Through my
Writing
I believed were
Circumstantial.
The deadlines, the rubric, the rules….
Unfortunately as it turns out, I was limited
Because I did not know how to write.
Not even close.
But now,
I feel clean.
Klinkenborg takes what
We think we know,
Completely disregards it and finds its replacement-
The truth.
It was hard at first,
To be open to learning something completely new.
It was as if
He took everything that I had believed,
And threw it into a fire.
Each ember that sparked out of the scarlet blaze
Symbolized pieces of the old me
Screaming out to be kept alive.
But to be a new me,
I had to learn to let those embers die.
At times,
I felt like he was criticizing me personally,
And I got frustrated.
I was annoyed with the idea that I could be wrong
About something that I love.
How egotistical of me.
Of course I could be wrong.
And soon after I had this realization
I let his words seep into
My newly found skin.
The way he spoke about
Distrusting flow- something
That I thought I should
Value
As a writer,
Captured my attention.
I was a little bit apprehensive
To actually believe what he was saying.
“Flow” is something that I was taught to
Treasure.
But as he explained the thought process behind it,
I began to understand.
Klinkenborg says to
“Depend entirely on the sentence you’re making.”
Entirely on one sentence.
That is what you will use to determine the
Fate
Of the next sentence
And the one after that.
I specifically found comfort in the way
He spoke about
Cliches.
When writing short stories or creative pieces,
I often think that everything has
Already been said.
And yet we continue to say them,
So the cliches continue,
In a long cycle.
But,
What I have come to learn in my time with this book is that, Klinkenborg has a way around the Cliches.
If you focus on the words of the sentence you are
Currently making, and not the
Meaning
Or
Intent
Of the whole piece,
You will
Realize
That the meaning and intent depend entirely on the
Sentence
you are writing right now.
I also found his thoughts about “complete” writing
Compelling.
I am one who will get
Lost
In what I’m writing from time to time.
I find myself
Creating sentences without focusing on what the words
Are
Actually
Saying.
Klinkenborg says that when work is really complete,
The writer
Knows
How each sentence got that way.
That is something that I struggle with.
I use words the wrong way.
I create sentences that make
Absolutely no sense,
And then I look back at them and
Laugh
At myself.
This book has inspired me in ways
I did not know I could be
Inspired by.
Looking into myself as not only a
Writer
But also a
Person.
The time that I have had to
Relfect
On all of my choices,
Writing and in general,
Has
Changed
The way that I think of myself.
I hope that I can
Consistently
Refer back to this book for
Help.
Klinkenborg knows what he is saying,
And I now aspire
To have that feeling-
The feeling of just simply
Knowing
One day.
Book Review:
When I
First started this journey,
I wasn’t sure what I was going to
Expect.
Yet, my expectations
Were exceeded.
But not from the start.
You see,
This book was an
Eye opener
For me.
But I was hesitant at first.
I have been so
Limited my entire writing
Life.
And I didn’t even know it.
The limitations I have felt
Through my
Writing
I believed were
Circumstantial.
The deadlines, the rubric, the rules….
Unfortunately as it turns out, I was limited
Because I did not know how to write.
Not even close.
But now,
I feel clean.
Klinkenborg takes what
We think we know,
Completely disregards it and finds its replacement-
The truth.
It was hard at first,
To be open to learning something completely new.
It was as if
He took everything that I had believed,
And threw it into a fire.
Each ember that sparked out of the scarlet blaze
Symbolized pieces of the old me
Screaming out to be kept alive.
But to be a new me,
I had to learn to let those embers die.
At times,
I felt like he was criticizing me personally,
And I got frustrated.
I was annoyed with the idea that I could be wrong
About something that I love.
How egotistical of me.
Of course I could be wrong.
And soon after I had this realization
I let his words seep into
My newly found skin.
The way he spoke about
Distrusting flow- something
That I thought I should
Value
As a writer,
Captured my attention.
I was a little bit apprehensive
To actually believe what he was saying.
“Flow” is something that I was taught to
Treasure.
But as he explained the thought process behind it,
I began to understand.
Klinkenborg says to
“Depend entirely on the sentence you’re making.”
Entirely on one sentence.
That is what you will use to determine the
Fate
Of the next sentence
And the one after that.
I specifically found comfort in the way
He spoke about
Cliches.
When writing short stories or creative pieces,
I often think that everything has
Already been said.
And yet we continue to say them,
So the cliches continue,
In a long cycle.
But,
What I have come to learn in my time with this book is that, Klinkenborg has a way around the Cliches.
If you focus on the words of the sentence you are
Currently making, and not the
Meaning
Or
Intent
Of the whole piece,
You will
Realize
That the meaning and intent depend entirely on the
Sentence
you are writing right now.
I also found his thoughts about “complete” writing
Compelling.
I am one who will get
Lost
In what I’m writing from time to time.
I find myself
Creating sentences without focusing on what the words
Are
Actually
Saying.
Klinkenborg says that when work is really complete,
The writer
Knows
How each sentence got that way.
That is something that I struggle with.
I use words the wrong way.
I create sentences that make
Absolutely no sense,
And then I look back at them and
Laugh
At myself.
This book has inspired me in ways
I did not know I could be
Inspired by.
Looking into myself as not only a
Writer
But also a
Person.
The time that I have had to
Relfect
On all of my choices,
Writing and in general,
Has
Changed
The way that I think of myself.
I hope that I can
Consistently
Refer back to this book for
Help.
Klinkenborg knows what he is saying,
And I now aspire
To have that feeling-
The feeling of just simply
Knowing
One day.
Book Review:
When I
First started this journey,
I wasn’t sure what I was going to
Expect.
Yet, my expectations
Were exceeded.
But not from the start.
You see,
This book was an
Eye opener
For me.
But I was hesitant at first.
I have been so
Limited my entire writing
Life.
And I didn’t even know it.
The limitations I have felt
Through my
Writing
I believed were
Circumstantial.
The deadlines, the rubric, the rules….
Unfortunately as it turns out, I was limited
Because I did not know how to write.
Not even close.
But now,
I feel clean.
Klinkenborg takes what
We think we know,
Completely disregards it and finds its replacement-
The truth.
It was hard at first,
To be open to learning something completely new.
It was as if
He took everything that I had believed,
And threw it into a fire.
Each ember that sparked out of the scarlet blaze
Symbolized pieces of the old me
Screaming out to be kept alive.
But to be a new me,
I had to learn to let those embers die.
At times,
I felt like he was criticizing me personally,
And I got frustrated.
I was annoyed with the idea that I could be wrong
About something that I love.
How egotistical of me.
Of course I could be wrong.
And soon after I had this realization
I let his words seep into
My newly found skin.
The way he spoke about
Distrusting flow- something
That I thought I should
Value
As a writer,
Captured my attention.
I was a little bit apprehensive
To actually believe what he was saying.
“Flow” is something that I was taught to
Treasure.
But as he explained the thought process behind it,
I began to understand.
Klinkenborg says to
“Depend entirely on the sentence you’re making.”
Entirely on one sentence.
That is what you will use to determine the
Fate
Of the next sentence
And the one after that.
I specifically found comfort in the way
He spoke about
Cliches.
When writing short stories or creative pieces,
I often think that everything has
Already been said.
And yet we continue to say them,
So the cliches continue,
In a long cycle.
But,
What I have come to learn in my time with this book is that, Klinkenborg has a way around the Cliches.
If you focus on the words of the sentence you are
Currently making, and not the
Meaning
Or
Intent
Of the whole piece,
You will
Realize
That the meaning and intent depend entirely on the
Sentence
you are writing right now.
I also found his thoughts about “complete” writing
Compelling.
I am one who will get
Lost
In what I’m writing from time to time.
I find myself
Creating sentences without focusing on what the words
Are
Actually
Saying.
Klinkenborg says that when work is really complete,
The writer
Knows
How each sentence got that way.
That is something that I struggle with.
I use words the wrong way.
I create sentences that make
Absolutely no sense,
And then I look back at them and
Laugh
At myself.
This book has inspired me in ways
I did not know I could be
Inspired by.
Looking into myself as not only a
Writer
But also a
Person.
The time that I have had to
Relfect
On all of my choices,
Writing and in general,
Has
Changed
The way that I think of myself.
I hope that I can
Consistently
Refer back to this book for
Help.
Klinkenborg knows what he is saying,
And I now aspire
To have that feeling-
The feeling of just simply
Knowing
One day.
When I
First started this journey,
I wasn’t sure what I was going to
Expect.
Yet, my expectations
Were exceeded.
But not from the start.
You see,
This book was an
Eye opener
For me.
But I was hesitant at first.
I have been so
Limited my entire writing
Life.
And I didn’t even know it.
The limitations I have felt
Through my
Writing
I believed were
Circumstantial.
The deadlines, the rubric, the rules….
Unfortunately as it turns out, I was limited
Because I did not know how to write.
Not even close.
But now,
I feel clean.
Klinkenborg takes what
We think we know,
Completely disregards it and finds its replacement-
The truth.
It was hard at first,
To be open to learning something completely new.
It was as if
He took everything that I had believed,
And threw it into a fire.
Each ember that sparked out of the scarlet blaze
Symbolized pieces of the old me
Screaming out to be kept alive.
But to be a new me,
I had to learn to let those embers die.
At times,
I felt like he was criticizing me personally,
And I got frustrated.
I was annoyed with the idea that I could be wrong
About something that I love.
How egotistical of me.
Of course I could be wrong.
And soon after I had this realization
I let his words seep into
My newly found skin.
The way he spoke about
Distrusting flow- something
That I thought I should
Value
As a writer,
Captured my attention.
I was a little bit apprehensive
To actually believe what he was saying.
“Flow” is something that I was taught to
Treasure.
But as he explained the thought process behind it,
I began to understand.
Klinkenborg says to
“Depend entirely on the sentence you’re making.”
Entirely on one sentence.
That is what you will use to determine the
Fate
Of the next sentence
And the one after that.
I specifically found comfort in the way
He spoke about
Cliches.
When writing short stories or creative pieces,
I often think that everything has
Already been said.
And yet we continue to say them,
So the cliches continue,
In a long cycle.
But,
What I have come to learn in my time with this book is that, Klinkenborg has a way around the Cliches.
If you focus on the words of the sentence you are
Currently making, and not the
Meaning
Or
Intent
Of the whole piece,
You will
Realize
That the meaning and intent depend entirely on the
Sentence
you are writing right now.
I also found his thoughts about “complete” writing
Compelling.
I am one who will get
Lost
In what I’m writing from time to time.
I find myself
Creating sentences without focusing on what the words
Are
Actually
Saying.
Klinkenborg says that when work is really complete,
The writer
Knows
How each sentence got that way.
That is something that I struggle with.
I use words the wrong way.
I create sentences that make
Absolutely no sense,
And then I look back at them and
Laugh
At myself.
This book has inspired me in ways
I did not know I could be
Inspired by.
Looking into myself as not only a
Writer
But also a
Person.
The time that I have had to
Relfect
On all of my choices,
Writing and in general,
Has
Changed
The way that I think of myself.
I hope that I can
Consistently
Refer back to this book for
Help.
Klinkenborg knows what he is saying,
And I now aspire
To have that feeling-
The feeling of just simply
Knowing
One day.
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