Well, we see how you made a penname with a little bit of polish OWITZ added to ASKO. Making memories of the POLISH neighborhood give us ASKOWITZ. You were quite American too. Mark Twain became a name by using a wetter neighborhood....the river....as it gave a depth that told us the hull would not snag its bottom when going there. In short, you show how writing grows out of real things. All this depends on context. Why? SI and SEE both sound alike but they mean two different things which any writer places in the work to use without mixing up any reader. It means, a bandit wants to SEE the treasure which moves him to wonder if he should take it? If he answers SI, only the sheriff has a different opinoin. NO! This makes a story.
Oh my goodness, yes!! My writing can be measured in geological time. I don't mind it so much with essays I really want to get right, but I'm like that with EVERYTHING! It's taking me 20 minutes to respond to this post. I am SO jealous of people who not only bust out good writing quickly, but are also amazing literary citizens and can read and respond in sincere ways to the writing of others. I'm baffled by how they do it all. I want to be faster and maybe I can improve a bit, but I think I will always be slow... a tortoise cannot turn itself into a hare.
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Well, we see how you made a penname with a little bit of polish OWITZ added to ASKO. Making memories of the POLISH neighborhood give us ASKOWITZ. You were quite American too. Mark Twain became a name by using a wetter neighborhood....the river....as it gave a depth that told us the hull would not snag its bottom when going there. In short, you show how writing grows out of real things. All this depends on context. Why? SI and SEE both sound alike but they mean two different things which any writer places in the work to use without mixing up any reader. It means, a bandit wants to SEE the treasure which moves him to wonder if he should take it? If he answers SI, only the sheriff has a different opinoin. NO! This makes a story.
Oh my goodness, yes!! My writing can be measured in geological time. I don't mind it so much with essays I really want to get right, but I'm like that with EVERYTHING! It's taking me 20 minutes to respond to this post. I am SO jealous of people who not only bust out good writing quickly, but are also amazing literary citizens and can read and respond in sincere ways to the writing of others. I'm baffled by how they do it all. I want to be faster and maybe I can improve a bit, but I think I will always be slow... a tortoise cannot turn itself into a hare.
You can become faster. I'm the slowest, but I used to be even slower.