can a shoe horn be non-literary? i don't know about the literary part. i fear the word is over used. my own private shoe horns come from a place where MFAs don't exist (even if i have one). i wonder about the usefulness of prompts, triggers, launching pads, catapults, trampolines, etc. maybe all this shoe-horning leads to a lot of junk. no? i wonder. when i was younger i found myself caught up in the natalie goldberg "writing down the bones" way -- now i don't think much of it. she sold a lot of books to humans with dreams (and dreams deferred). writing as "self-therapy" makes me cringe. don't mean to agitate. just wondering. or maybe agitation is my own literary shoe horn. hmmm.
My favorite literary shoehorn when starting a blog post for a client is "Look, stupid. . ." Whenever I'm stuck for an opening lede, I write that and then say the thing I want Stupid to know. Everything just flows out of that.
can a shoe horn be non-literary? i don't know about the literary part. i fear the word is over used. my own private shoe horns come from a place where MFAs don't exist (even if i have one). i wonder about the usefulness of prompts, triggers, launching pads, catapults, trampolines, etc. maybe all this shoe-horning leads to a lot of junk. no? i wonder. when i was younger i found myself caught up in the natalie goldberg "writing down the bones" way -- now i don't think much of it. she sold a lot of books to humans with dreams (and dreams deferred). writing as "self-therapy" makes me cringe. don't mean to agitate. just wondering. or maybe agitation is my own literary shoe horn. hmmm.
My favorite literary shoehorn when starting a blog post for a client is "Look, stupid. . ." Whenever I'm stuck for an opening lede, I write that and then say the thing I want Stupid to know. Everything just flows out of that.
Love this, Joy. I remember you talking about it before. Excellent prompt as well. Thanks!