Suddenly realized what trying to learn fiction writing reminds me of... golf. The one time I took a golf lesson, the awkward form you had to adopt (not straightening your knees on the downswing after the line up) completely turned me off
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I really suck at untraining natural impulses into awkward but formally correct and appropriate ones required to produce certain effects
Does anyone actually get to enjoying the golf swing motion?
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I can relate to this analogy explicitly because when I first tried gold I had a lot of awkward forms from martial arts training that got in the way of my swing.
I’ve also realized that what distinguishes great voices in fiction is their experimentations with form.
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