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journaling turning into a piece of writing

Postby John21 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:15 pm

so i journal all the damn time, and i enjoy it. it keeps us sane :) lets me remember where i came from. A friend a few weeks ago said i should take my journaling and do a full blown book with it... i've wanted to in the past, i even started the first chapter of one in the past, then i had this writing college class and the instructor was one of my co-worker's dad. Turns out he knew i worked with his son, and he hated how his son had taken to the computer industry instead of doing something with his life and being a reporter like the old man right? So his dad took out his frustration on his son on me because i was just like his son, working in the same career path, we were good friends and very alike. I kept writing papers and re writing, and sometimes made up to 15 drafts before i was done! jack was very impressed with himself but slowly and surely we failed the class, we were the best student in there, contributed the most to the group, all of that... and we failed. since then i just haven't felt like writing until my friend recently brought it up and i've just been mulling it over.

do i let some teacher shatter my hopes of being a good writer just out of his own hatred for his son and taking it out on me?
maybe i looked too far into it, maybe im just a terrible writer and he was very dry in how he told it?
do i make a book and then someday it turns into a flop, i realize half way through its just the insane ramblings of myselves?

im thinking of giving it a shot, the whole idea of "###$ what everyone else thinks", a mentality i have adopted and adapted from bates :)
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Postby Harri » Tue Mar 10, 2009 4:50 pm

I'd say do it.

My therapist read my journal once; she told me it was a valuable and precious work, and that I must take good care of it, not let it fall into the wrong hands, and not let anyone put me down about it.

I think that holds true for you, too :)


Plus some teachers really do not know how to teach well. Don't let him put you off!
-- So what then is this I?
Right now, as you read this, does it amount to anything more than a collection of thoughts and memories which are just transitory, and come and go in the mind like clouds in the sky? --
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Postby Mr. Bates » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:36 pm

:D Remember kids, when in doubt, think "WWBD?"

Go for it, Johnny. And be happy you quietly failed. I would have lipped off big time. :P
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Postby John21 » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:13 pm

i think ive heard stories of people who flunked out of all of their english classes in high school and college and then went on to be successful writers.... hmmmz
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Postby Escape Artist » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:57 pm

DOOOOOOOO IIIIITTTTTTTT


...peer pressure.
I'm all at sea
Where no one can bother me
Forgot my roots
If only for a day
Just me and my thoughts
Sailing far away...
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