I don't know if I do it all the time... I try to do it all the time; so often there's a feeling I'm trying to get across and I can't send it to people or put it in their heads, but it's there in them already if I could just find the right words to unlock it. There's probably a word for this... (I'm scratching around in my brain for some kind of psychoanalytical term for it, but that's probably just because I'm reading a lot about Freud at the moment, though more biography than theory -- it's 'research for my novel', ah-ha-ha-ha, but maybe one day, ho hum.)
But what I never really see with my writing is the moment when the light goes on in the other guy's eyes. I get that at work, sometimes, finding the right analogy that'll translate geekspeak into English, or showing somebody how to do something that they couldn't do before. It feels like a turning key, an unlocking. Which keeps making me think that maybe I should have joined the lemming-like rush into teaching... but, eh, well. Forking paths, "and the road not taken disappears into the path of least resistance".
I'd probably think more if I stopped thinking about thinking -- no longer sure if it's my besetting sin or my saving grace.
Ach, anyway, sorry for rambling at you like this. I guess I'll find a use for myself one day. :-)
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Re: Your writing
Date: 2006-06-28 02:31 pm (UTC)I don't know if I do it all the time... I try to do it all the time; so often there's a feeling I'm trying to get across and I can't send it to people or put it in their heads, but it's there in them already if I could just find the right words to unlock it. There's probably a word for this... (I'm scratching around in my brain for some kind of psychoanalytical term for it, but that's probably just because I'm reading a lot about Freud at the moment, though more biography than theory -- it's 'research for my novel', ah-ha-ha-ha, but maybe one day, ho hum.)
But what I never really see with my writing is the moment when the light goes on in the other guy's eyes. I get that at work, sometimes, finding the right analogy that'll translate geekspeak into English, or showing somebody how to do something that they couldn't do before. It feels like a turning key, an unlocking. Which keeps making me think that maybe I should have joined the lemming-like rush into teaching... but, eh, well. Forking paths, "and the road not taken disappears into the path of least resistance".
I'd probably think more if I stopped thinking about thinking -- no longer sure if it's my besetting sin or my saving grace.
Ach, anyway, sorry for rambling at you like this. I guess I'll find a use for myself one day. :-)