I am posting this thread on both this board and the Author's Hangout because I believe it is so important.
I have spent years laboring to hone my craft as a poet, a story writer, a musician, and a lyricist. The thing that has most amazed me is how much of that wasn't learning something new, but unlearning and uncluttering to get at things I've known instinctively since I was a child. Yes, I'm still talking writing here, though life principles often tend to apply.
So what I'd like to hear, and have others hear, is what the biggest UNLEARNED lessons have been in your journey as a writer. Maybe they are lessons the rest of us would do well to unlearn too
I have spent years laboring to hone my craft as a poet, a story writer, a musician, and a lyricist. The thing that has most amazed me is how much of that wasn't learning something new, but unlearning and uncluttering to get at things I've known instinctively since I was a child. Yes, I'm still talking writing here, though life principles often tend to apply.
So what I'd like to hear, and have others hear, is what the biggest UNLEARNED lessons have been in your journey as a writer. Maybe they are lessons the rest of us would do well to unlearn too