Comments on: A Writer’s Discipline https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/02/23/a-writers-discipline/ creative writing workshops & community Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:05:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Stephanie Cowell https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/02/23/a-writers-discipline/#comment-6 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:50:02 +0000 http://judithlindbergh.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-6 Judy, it’s inspiring! I am bookmarking it! I think we look back on the times when whole scenes just rush upon us and choose to forget that between those glorious moments in the repetitive barre work, the tiny details. I have always wondered why I have been so fascinated with films about the discipline of the life of a classical dancer! I have watched L’Etoiles, about the dancers in the Paris Opera Ballet, about 15 times. When I get in trouble is when I say, “Well! Where’s my daily rush of total creative flying…”

love, Stephanie (author of “Marrying Mozart”)

]]> By: Warren Heygood https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/02/23/a-writers-discipline/#comment-5 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:39:53 +0000 http://judithlindbergh.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-5 I, too, begin my creative career as a writer. Your coloration of discipline between art forms is valid. My back ground is theatre and jazz. With jazz one has to master the scales and chords with constant repetition. In theatre, there is always the work no audience sees; the picking away at meaning, always questioning motives, running through difficult passages aloud in private. This is the work of art not the polished, nuanced performance of a finished product.

The work of writing is never in the first draft. That has always been the Zen part of the process for me. It is the continual editing, going over and over, as in acting, to find that nuanced, polished manuscript. I cannot imagine the Thrall’s Tale ever being a first draft work, but one of repetition and craft.

Keep putting these ingots of wisdom out there because in this up-to-the-second society we’re currently in, young artists need to know the time art truly takes to create. They also need to know that no matter how beautiful a triple pirouette one can pull off, there is always something to work on to make the whole better.

]]> By: Judith https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/02/23/a-writers-discipline/#comment-4 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:46:17 +0000 http://judithlindbergh.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-4 Sandra, thanks. I’m so glad you came to visit. Good writing today to both of us – and to anyone who’s reading this.

]]> By: Sandra Joseph https://writerscircleworkshops.com/2009/02/23/a-writers-discipline/#comment-3 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:25:05 +0000 http://judithlindbergh.wordpress.com/?p=20#comment-3 Beautiful! I SO need your dancer’s discipline. This is going to be such a wonderful blog. You’ve inspired me already. I’m off to the barre. Or maybe the bar.

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