Comments on: i’m a hunter http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/index.php/2010/02/06/im-a-hunter/ A writer with a goal: to learn to write well and edit better. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3-beta2 By: Kristy Coffer http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/index.php/2010/02/06/im-a-hunter/comment-page-1/#comment-1392 Kristy Coffer Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:09:52 +0000 http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/?p=591#comment-1392 But wanna comment that you have a very nice internet site , I the style it really stands out. But wanna comment that you have a very nice internet site , I the style it really stands out.

]]> By: ieva http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/index.php/2010/02/06/im-a-hunter/comment-page-1/#comment-502 ieva Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:42:26 +0000 http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/?p=591#comment-502 I'm actually thinking that there are many great writers who are/have been hunters by definition. For example, I think Mark Twain could have been one. I suspect that most of seat-of-the-pants writers are. At any rate, I don't think hunters are "unreliable" by definition. After all, they all had families to feed, didn't they? The only difference is that they couldn't plant a rabbit behind a bush in spring and gather in autumn. I think that a hunter-writer just needs different approach to her writing. And, definitely, a hunter-writer must accept and celebrate the fact that sometimes you go out for a deer and come back with a bear. But that's a subject to investigate. I’m actually thinking that there are many great writers who are/have been hunters by definition. For example, I think Mark Twain could have been one. I suspect that most of seat-of-the-pants writers are. At any rate, I don’t think hunters are “unreliable” by definition. After all, they all had families to feed, didn’t they? The only difference is that they couldn’t plant a rabbit behind a bush in spring and gather in autumn. I think that a hunter-writer just needs different approach to her writing. And, definitely, a hunter-writer must accept and celebrate the fact that sometimes you go out for a deer and come back with a bear.

But that’s a subject to investigate.

]]> By: neighbor http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/index.php/2010/02/06/im-a-hunter/comment-page-1/#comment-497 neighbor Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:14:23 +0000 http://www.creativity.lv/birdcherry/?p=591#comment-497 hunter, all the way - but not in a high-profile, venture capitalist way... actually I'd refine it (and I talk about it on my blog a lot) and say I'm at the forager end of the spectrum. Looking for something special, tuned in to what's around me, wondering if it's the day of perfect wild greens or if I'll see the last of the wintering tundra swans as they leave. I'm out there talking to the unsee-ables, and I can't garden worth a damn, apparently, though I love plants dearly (and think I ought to put in a garden 'cause the economy is convulsing). Or at least I can't garden in a straight line - it's gotta be hodge-podge, messy mixed-up hiding something half the seeds didn't sprout and the rest are all a-scramble kind of thing. That would make me a bad/unreliable pro-writer, too. I can and do sit down and slog through it - but had to give up on my previous WIP because it was going to kill me with boring. Not that I need an excuse for my evasive-mind which is birdlike in flitting about, but this makes me feel less... guilty, about what makes me happy. "try stuff and see what happens" Yeah. That. hunter, all the way – but not in a high-profile, venture capitalist way… actually I’d refine it (and I talk about it on my blog a lot) and say I’m at the forager end of the spectrum. Looking for something special, tuned in to what’s around me, wondering if it’s the day of perfect wild greens or if I’ll see the last of the wintering tundra swans as they leave. I’m out there talking to the unsee-ables, and I can’t garden worth a damn, apparently, though I love plants dearly (and think I ought to put in a garden ’cause the economy is convulsing). Or at least I can’t garden in a straight line – it’s gotta be hodge-podge, messy mixed-up hiding something half the seeds didn’t sprout and the rest are all a-scramble kind of thing.

That would make me a bad/unreliable pro-writer, too. I can and do sit down and slog through it – but had to give up on my previous WIP because it was going to kill me with boring. Not that I need an excuse for my evasive-mind which is birdlike in flitting about, but this makes me feel less… guilty, about what makes me happy.

“try stuff and see what happens” Yeah. That.

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