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Jul 17Liked by πŸ’Ž Jaime Buckley

I really like this drawing because while it is a fun one of you, it also captures some of the emotion of being a writer.

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You think so? When I was drawing it, I felt to keep the stare at the onlooker, as if I was frozen in thought and consideration. That's how I felt...

But you are correct.

Everything you draw has a part of you in it...and the more emotion you can let out, the potentially better it could become. Intellectualizing a drawing, and I've done that also, makes it flat and near lifeless.

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Jul 17Liked by πŸ’Ž Jaime Buckley

I think that applies to a lot of creativity. Intellectualizing it saps the life.

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One of the worst jobs I ever had was when I was trying to get back on my feet after becoming homeless with my wife and the kids a SECOND time...and I wrote articles freelance for companies like Disney, and tech-research....it was all facts and certain tones that were non negotiable.

...I was never allowed to be me.

I did get so good at it, they assigned me a full-time editor, and I was the first freelancer they'd hired that was allowed to go against their company policy:

I got to cherry pick my jobs, and I could take as many as I wanted (company limit was 3, until done)...because I ALWAYS met the deadlines.

Don't remember the Editors name...though I think it was Susan...even she agreed... "Soul-Sucking" was the term nearly all the company writers called it.

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Jul 17Liked by πŸ’Ž Jaime Buckley

Ugh.

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ahhhhh, so you know the kind of work I be talkin' about, eh?

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I used to write support manuals for software I'd written. Then later I wrote tech support articles... So... Yep

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