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Writing when you don't feel like it, pushing yourself to write something, is a good way to practice the process of writing...I have seen how every writer develops their own process, and it is usually by developing a discipline to write things down when you don't have anything that is that interesting to you, or feels right...write it anyway, just to keep it moving...write the things that seem important as quickly as you can, stop what you are doing to write if you have to...it is all about the process...the longer you work on developing a process for writing, the less you will feel blocked...sometimes trauma can block me, I have PTSD so sometimes I get blocked by that as well, memories or triggered trauma...sometimes writing regardless will help the trauma, sometimes I need to walk away and come back to it, process it some other way...but always with the intention of getting back to the writing process and keeping that the most important process to work on...
A. Razor
I hear you, it reads that way, it has a maleness to it. I can see it has triggered a response from you that shows a genuine contempt for the patriarch
I hear you, it reads that way, it has a maleness to it. I can see it has triggered a response from you that shows a genuine contempt for the patriarchal structure. I am trying to unlearn a lot of those cues, lived outside of that mainstream my whole life, bu that male role belief system is there, inside me, even after all the work i have done. I will remove the trespass.
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Nov 06, 2014 08:25PM · flag
Nov 06, 2014 08:25PM · flag
Stephanie Cleveland
Thank you. I appreciate being heard. It's been a rare experience for me. If I complain about women who self identify by all the woman-hating language
Thank you. I appreciate being heard. It's been a rare experience for me. If I complain about women who self identify by all the woman-hating language and patriarchal scripts for sex, I have often been written off. If you don't support women's writing like that, or say something critical of it, one positive thing you can do with male privilege is, people will not make fun of you for it. They will (in general) have more respect for your male opinion, it won't get treated as histrionic, etc.
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Nov 07, 2014 11:51AM · flag
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