tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015228732924544225.post5511540384901717018..comments2023-08-16T11:00:22.426-05:00Comments on The Blank Page: On Expectation vs. RealityLaura Millshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021197723868815422noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015228732924544225.post-38441833324207908582013-06-17T11:35:32.142-05:002013-06-17T11:35:32.142-05:00I need to stop getting all the credit here . . I ...I need to stop getting all the credit here . . I think what really happened is that I said something mundane and Laura's wonderful old soul brain interpreted my ramblings into the insightful stuff on the blog.<br />to Chris --> I am a graphic artist, not a writer and I find often that once I actually start physically doing something - better ideas start flowing - those surprise moments.<br /><br />Mom/Barbsunspothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06531314478860755377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6015228732924544225.post-1063646809952828452013-06-15T15:38:15.706-05:002013-06-15T15:38:15.706-05:00After writing for awhile, now, I still sometimes t...After writing for awhile, now, I still sometimes think, "I love what's in my head." But your mom is right: that doesn't matter. We can make what's in our head perfect because it's in a bubble. There's no real effort that goes into knowing enough about a story and idealizing it in one's mind. It doesn't take hours and days and even--at times--years to make that idea in our heads real. So I think about this perfect thing in my head and idealize it sometimes. Still.<br /><br />But in the act of actually putting the story down come the moments I never expected that make me leap up from my chair and think, "I just wrote that!" I can look at any of the manuscripts I've finished and see things I'll always want to change, but I'll also say this: the perfect in my head is never as good as those surprise moments when I pull something off that I didn't know I was capable of doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com