Goldberg and Cameron readings...

After reading Golberg's 'Writing Down The Bones' I have a new profound perspective as to how I look at writing in general. I never would have thought that it mattered what tools you use when writing for one. The smooth stroke of a pen on a piece of paper absorbs not only the ink, but your emotion from your heart as well. I learned that your tools you use when writing can be very beneficial to you. I'm well aware that everyone has a different writing style and choices within the tools you choose to use are going to be different. Me personally, I have always preferred using a computer when I write. There is one thing that stood out from the tools one can utilize. I found the idea of recording yourself speaking your thoughts to be extremely useful. That way you can here exactly how the flow of the words sound.
One thing that really caught my attention was the line "Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness". That's one thing that I really needed to here to make this class more enjoyable. All throughout my college career I have had limitations of my writing style that pertained certain strict guidelines. But I realized to become a better writer, one must flow free and not let the ego slow your thoughts down, because first thoughts have extremely powerful energy. Your first thoughts are your consciousness exploding into the universe. That is, if you don't second-guess yourself..

After reading the right to write I have yet another fabulous profound new perspective on writing. I learned that one's writing will never be perfect. Sitting and staring at a blank page wondering if you are writing to the best of your ability will only cause one to freeze up. I think a major problem that I do possess is attempting to write to carefully. I hope to improve my writing skills through out the course of this semester. A line from the reading that I've grown to love is 'When we just let ourselves write, we get it "right".' This article really taught me a lot of how I'm going to approach writing from now on. It states that 'writing is about getting something down, not thinking something up. Essentially one must go off of intuition, follow your heart, and completely loose the ego. I have to realize that I'm not perfect and either is anyone else in this universe. This article slightly reminds me of the Goldberg reading. I need to teach writing as an act of listening from now on, not speech. Listen to my own thoughts and follow my heart. Something I found interesting was the fact that you have to give up a sense of control and power when writing. For the sake of real creative writing one must surrender those voices in their head telling that they 'might be doing something wrong'. I look forward to improving my writing skills this semester, I'm excited to have complete freedom and to be able to think outside the box, better yet, there will be no box.