Frustration about Writing

来源: jennea 于 2011-08-28 11:52:54 [] [博客] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 阅读数 : (8567 bytes)
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Now that we all know the Power of Writing from New Voice’s convincing essay, I also want to vent my frustration about learning （practicing） writing from my own personal experiences.

I like reading. I (have) liked reading Chinese novels since (I was in) elementary schools. When I was a kid, I used to spend all my spare time reading, even on(at) dinner tables (with my parents scolding me)despite my parents' scolding. To my credit, I read really fast, finishing one 500-page book in one day, and moving on to (the) next one the next (in the following) day. Sadly, this habit didn’t boost my writing or speaking skills, even in Chinese.The problem with my reading habit is that I never paid attention to how authors express their ideas or tell their stories, but only to the ideas and stories themselves. With a “scientific” mind which I have always been kind of proud of, I was trained to grasp the “truth” out of the “details”, keeping only the “truth” and discarding the “details”, believing that I could deducte the details later myself. Unfortunately, even though this trick might have worked for sciences (courses), it won’t work for writing and speaking, which require almost the opposite, describing a whole lot of details and sometimes, only the details.

To make matters even worse, I don’t like reading in English. I know I should. I pushed myself very hard several times in the past, but was never successful. I blamed this mainly for lacking (the lack )of vocabularies(y?) my limited vacabulary. But thinking of it (in retrospect) now, I believe the real reason is that I have already passed that(the) golden age for(of?) reading novels. I am not into other people’s stories that (as) much as (when) I was young, because I have so much of (am in struggle with?) my own stories every day stories to struggle with. I have no patience to read other people’s drama happened centuries ago any more because I need to take care of my own first. As a matter of fact, I stopped reading Chinese novels, too. Now, to kill time, I only watch the Chinese dating TV reality show, which gives me a false sense of reality by watching real people making fun of each other on stage.

As a woman, when I write, I have this (the) tendency of babbling about my own feelings. I read somewhere that this kind of tendency is considered ( as) one of the common drawbacks of women writers. We women tend to focus on our own emotions, our own and life stories, instead of the big picture about more important aspects of life, like (such as) morals of human race, like and (the) future of the world, etc. This critics (criticism) kind of ashamed pushed me futher away from writing, since I don’t want to embarrass myself and bother others with my own tiny little small world.  

But hey, after reading Eat Pray Love, I (have) regained my confidence. The book doesn't discuss anything serious. It uses short sentences. It talks about a woman’s own emotional journey. And it is "freakishly successful", as the author put it herself.

So, should I give it a try too?  Haha, that’s why I wrote this piece down here in(on) a sunny Sunday morning, in my pajamas with a cup of hot coffee, imagining traveling across (around) the world and writing down every （minor） details of my own thoughts to make a good living like her.

Bricks are certainly welcomed as always.

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• 写作练习， 请拍砖！ -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 11:55:24

• excellent, excellent writing! -非文学青年- ♀ 给 非文学青年 发送悄悄话 非文学青年 的博客首页 (129 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 12:51:58

• Really? Thanks! now I am feeling great! wait for your bricks! -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:44:33

• 这些家伙们肯定是嫉妒你背诵得好，给了你不少砖头。哈哈。我的小砖头和一点写作的建议 -非文学青年- ♀ 给 非文学青年 发送悄悄话 非文学青年 的博客首页 (23239 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 22:30:09

• I made a lot of stupid mistakes -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (603 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 23:04:23

• 更新了， 大谢！ -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (93 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 23:20:29

• 恩，这个我也觉得不好改。 -非文学青年- ♀ 给 非文学青年 发送悄悄话 非文学青年 的博客首页 (101 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 23:36:04

• A nice writing! -NewVoice- ♀ 给 NewVoice 发送悄悄话 (85 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 13:23:57

• A few bricks! -NewVoice- ♀ 给 NewVoice 发送悄悄话 (1537 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 13:55:37

• 全部收下！ 重谢！！！ -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:45:20

• 写的非常好。希望我练半年后有这个水平。 -i999- ♀ 给 i999 发送悄悄话 i999 的博客首页 (1255 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:24:04

• 对， 对！！ 老师也给我指出过，可我老是忘记。。。 -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:47:34

• 你现在写的就不比我差，你也写点啥么。就writing发表一点想法啊，或者其他的题目 -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:56:58

• 我是一个没有啥思想的人。呵呵。生活平淡枯燥。很难写出好内容。 -i999- ♀ 给 i999 发送悄悄话 i999 的博客首页 (125 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:59:32

• 我也一样。所以不喜欢写作。不过真要写下来，也挺enjoy的。看着自己的东西的感觉，就算再差，也很亲切。 -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:17:42

• 我觉得你用词比较好，思维flow的也好。我很久没写东西了，要向你看齐多练练。 -i999- ♀ 给 i999 发送悄悄话 i999 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:21:12

• 我那个老师老说我写东西不够有条里，因为没有先写提纲，后作文。可我就是耐不下心来，总是想到哪儿写到哪儿 -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:26:55

• 老美的写作style也是八股文。 -i999- ♀ 给 i999 发送悄悄话 i999 的博客首页 (210 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:35:21

• 就是就是。否则写作就不好玩了。嗯，我也努力消灭 -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:39:08

• 顺便说一句，我写中文，我们老师的评语也是“形散神也散”！ -i999- ♀ 给 i999 发送悄悄话 i999 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:36:08

• Excellent writing,恩仙！ Your writing details are full of truth now -beautifulwind- ♀ 给 beautifulwind 发送悄悄话 beautifulwind 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:37:20

• 哈哈，not enough yet. You should read EPL, too. -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (50 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:46:16

• My 2 cents -jingbeiboy- ♂ 给 jingbeiboy 发送悄悄话 (2526 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:40:11

• 谢！！都收到。 in the morning 还是 on the morning 有点糊涂 -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (26 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:51:26

• 回复：谢！！都收到。 in the morning 还是 on the morning 有点糊涂 -jingbeiboy- ♂ 给 jingbeiboy 发送悄悄话 (152 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:00:41

• 哦，原来是这样！谢谢jingbei！ -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:05:43

• 写的真好！几块砖，不知对不对 -同学小薇- ♀ 给 同学小薇 发送悄悄话 同学小薇 的博客首页 (3832 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:45:18

• 嗯，都对！ on dinner tables 当时就觉得有点怪～～ -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (75 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:54:09

• 我改得不对的地方请其他同学指出来，Jenna也别介意，我也是在练习写作，水平亟待提高。 -i999- ♀ 给 i999 发送悄悄话 i999 的博客首页 (2092 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 14:57:18

• 你说的都对，单复数我老是乱用。还有代词和时态。 -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (61 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:03:40

• 三个小学！！ -i999- ♀ 给 i999 发送悄悄话 i999 的博客首页 (132 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:05:19

• every 后面应该不加复数， 我忽略了。 -jingbeiboy- ♂ 给 jingbeiboy 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:15:40

• 嗯，我改过来 -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 15:18:50

• Good job! A good beginning will make a good ending.~ -EnLearner- ♀ 给 EnLearner 发送悄悄话 EnLearner 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 16:23:04

• thanks! -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 21:44:09

• 就去给病人弄点下酒的药，转身回来楼就盖这么高啦！ -千与.千寻- ♀ 给 千与.千寻 发送悄悄话 千与.千寻 的博客首页 (541 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 16:42:42

• yes. that's my guilty pleasure for every weekend. -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (355 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 16:55:25

• 我的guilty pleasure 太多了。。。。挥泪逃走。 -i999- ♀ 给 i999 发送悄悄话 i999 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 17:03:49

• haha, life is short, do whatever you love! -jennea- ♀ 给 jennea 发送悄悄话 jennea 的博客首页 (233 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 17:41:37

• 我总是用life is short给自己找借口。哈哈。entertainment对宅大妈的我来说定义很窄。。。 -i999- ♀ 给 i999 发送悄悄话 i999 的博客首页 (0 bytes) () 08/28/2011 postreply 17:46:01

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