Everyone in my class hated having to learn Latin, because it is useless and hard, but I loved it, because it is like the very best kind of puzzle, completely different from every other language I know.
Maybe you know the meaning of five of the seven words in a sentence, and have only an imcomplete understanding of how the grammar of the first part works, or you suspect the tense of the verb but not its meaning, know the subject but not who or what the object is, and then you have to piece a coherent sentence together out of that. There are always different possibilities, and most of the time, you have to know what the last and the next sentence mean, too, to find the right one. It was awesome.
I once heard a famour director talk about how he can't just lean back to enjoy a movie -- he's always questioning the director's choices, analysing the lighting, and thinking of how he'd do it, if it was his movie.
I'm starting to feel that way about writing, now that I'm learning more and more about how to do it, myself -- trying to see how I'd do the scene from another POV, wishing I could fix the sloppy POV, mentally arranging the flashbacks in another order or rephrasing sentences... Do you do this, too?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 5/4/06 12:01 pm (UTC)Maybe you know the meaning of five of the seven words in a sentence, and have only an imcomplete understanding of how the grammar of the first part works, or you suspect the tense of the verb but not its meaning, know the subject but not who or what the object is, and then you have to piece a coherent sentence together out of that. There are always different possibilities, and most of the time, you have to know what the last and the next sentence mean, too, to find the right one. It was awesome.
I once heard a famour director talk about how he can't just lean back to enjoy a movie -- he's always questioning the director's choices, analysing the lighting, and thinking of how he'd do it, if it was his movie.
I'm starting to feel that way about writing, now that I'm learning more and more about how to do it, myself -- trying to see how I'd do the scene from another POV, wishing I could fix the sloppy POV, mentally arranging the flashbacks in another order or rephrasing sentences... Do you do this, too?