tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193395382186928290.post4215309192661592990..comments2018-05-22T08:12:55.443-07:00Comments on Write Purpose <br>Journal & Essays & Fiction &.....: Why did God Invent Writers?Jeannettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115410908800997558noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193395382186928290.post-47834078970093282592009-06-10T09:23:05.342-07:002009-06-10T09:23:05.342-07:00Thank you for your comment above. You explore iss...Thank you for your comment above. You explore issues in my post that I had barely begun to highlight. I like your understanding and images about words as windows and your enlarging of the words as curtain analogy. I agree with you that foggy stories are not of interest "on high." But I know you would also agree with me that people lost in the fog (as we all often are) and people lost in scotch (scotch comes in many forms) are of great interest to the "Most High." <br />Having read more of the book, it isn't one that I recommend. I was recently encouraged that others in the book group also have reservations about the whole process, from selection of books to focus as a group, so perhaps we will get into gear together yet. <br /><br />Your "reading of me" is, as always, invaluable.Jeannettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06115410908800997558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193395382186928290.post-28850793920040526072009-06-08T19:25:39.848-07:002009-06-08T19:25:39.848-07:00Funny how a phrase like that can take you right ba...Funny how a phrase like that can take you right back to a place that, not only has our current day left behind, but, many of a slightly younger generation will have no first-hand memory of. The "~~~~~~~~~~" is a good 'sound effect'. <br />But what the priest says about writing must perforce apply also to what he speaks... "try not to think about the words" and "he doesn't give a damn about the words". I must strongly disagree, while yet agreeing that words are guesswork, an approximation. But they do matter...in fact they make all the difference, because they exist in their own right and have inherent meaning, and if God loves a good story, that story is dependent on specific words. This is why story writing is an art. For me, words are not a curtain so much as a window, meant not to conceal, but to reveal, though they always represent a barrier to the raw reality they attempt to transmit, as is any and every medium devised to express the story of which we are a part.<br />Being in a bookgroup also means you get to grapple with the frustration of likely never being able to hammer out all these qualifiers and exceptions you might take with the author and the others in the group, but, because the words DO matter, some bit of an even better story may unfold as you pull back the curtains. Actually, words can also be like a curtain, making obscure the good story, fogging the view, thickening the plot...but if there aren't also words that penetrate the fog, the story will lose potency and I can't imagine God is that interested in a story lost in the fog or the scotch.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10245302282566974627noreply@blogger.com