20200828 WRITING - DAY 22 (READING WRITING - NUMBER 1)

Today I begin the first day of "READING MY WRITING ALOUD"

Below is what I wrote on the first day, along with edits made today (if any):

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Here's my list of subjects from yesterday:

1. RIGHT WRITE (rather, WRITE RIGHT) (or, WRITING RIGHT)
2. Why didn't I ever have a dream?
3. Dr. Pruitt
4. Travels with Ancel
5. Why are there ants on my arms and legs, and in my bed???????
6. How I became a Democrat
7. When did I give up my identity?

I might add more later.  But I'm thinking about just vomiting out words about each one of these, one a day, for a week.  At least it'll give me some sense of whether they're are viable subjects for me.

8.  Die Barbara

9.  Life is a series of mysteries - large and small.

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REPORTING FOR WORK:  Here goes my writing about "RIGHT WRITE":

I think it should be "WRITE RIGHT" - no?  I should develop ideas like Jeff Goins in YOU ARE A WRITER did, and write my own book about how to WRITE RIGHT.

Remembering when I wrote by hand, a long letter to Robert Melanson when he lived in Washington DC.  I thought it was quite unique of me to actually send a message, written in pen on paper, in our day of emails and computers.  So I addressed, in my letter to him, how there are several meanings of _______: write, right (meaning not wrong), right (meaning not left), right (meaning permission to have, do, or say something), rite (meaning ceremony)...... I'm not sure if I listed anything more than those.  But as of now, I'm not so sure my title (WRITE RIGHT) will carry (attract) much enthusiasm.

One thing I've learned thus far is that when I write some stuff, I will very likely want to change it later.  I've done this consistently with all my writing.  Most of what I write is in emails and text messages.  And it's there that I've developed any skill you could call "editing" of my own work.

So I'll have to practice some critical thinking skills, and evaluate what Jeff Goins says in his book, and see if I agree with him.  Since SAVERS (for me, SLLLAVERS) dictates a minimum of 60 seconds (for me, 70 seconds), I am reading and processing only a few paragraphs per day.  This is both good and bad.  GOOD because I can focus more readily on a single (or a few) ideas at a time, and it gives me time to absorb the idea, and "put it in the right place" within my mind/being.  IOW, I am his critic.  BAD, on the other hand, because it's often hard to keep threads of ideas going forward quickly enough to assimilate their messages, and then decide to either retain or discard them.

WRITING RIGHT is going to take a lot more focus and work than I've given it up til now.  I did do some measure of this with my 1st article, "My STONE MOUNTAIN Tee Shirt."  But I can tell that as I continue, I'll need to do more work, and more critical thinking, and more editing.

And now I'm faced with the dilemma:  Do I stay with and edit what I've written above, with the goal of producing a refined article?  Or do I move on to the next subject, to see if it (and later, others) are more important to my WRITING RIGHT skills right now?

I'm sure that 

1)  Editing is an endless process - I wonder if Jeff Goins addresses that in his book.

2)  Writers before me have likely asked this question of themselves.  I'm guessing that most, if not all, have begun writing/editing about a subject, but then left it alone, never to return.

I will most likely have to divest myself of the notion that I can begin with 1 subject, and see it through to some sort of "end" before I begin another.  But that's how I think/roll right now.

Another meaning of "right" - "right now."  Or is it just a cultural habit?

Qui sait?

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I read the above out loud.  It's ok doing that, but I'm not sure it's very useful.