Comments on: Book review: A picture is worth a thousand words http://whipup.net/2007/05/06/book-review-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/ handcraft in a hectic world Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:20:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pennihttp://whipup.net/2007/05/06/book-review-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/#comment-119713 Penni Sun, 06 May 2007 22:41:04 +0000 http://whipup.net/2007/05/06/book-review-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/#comment-119713 Interesting post, Kath. I started knitting (and checking whipup) over a year ago when suffering writer's block while writing my third novel. Knitting was such an excellent metaphor for writing because sometimes you don't see a mistake for quite a while, but when you do, you just have to unravel and start over from that point. It seems like a heartbreaking notion, and you might try and plug on for a while and ignore the mistake, but in the end, when you finally go back it's actually extremely gratifying and rewarding. Sometimes you have to go back to go forward. I think I had to relearn this through a medium where there wasn't as much at stake for me as writing.Investigating craft has also given me a heightened visual sense of the worlds I write about that I don't think I had before. Plus I ended up using the language of textiles as a metaphor in my writing. Interesting post, Kath. I started knitting (and checking whipup) over a year ago when suffering writer’s block while writing my third novel. Knitting was such an excellent metaphor for writing because sometimes you don’t see a mistake for quite a while, but when you do, you just have to unravel and start over from that point. It seems like a heartbreaking notion, and you might try and plug on for a while and ignore the mistake, but in the end, when you finally go back it’s actually extremely gratifying and rewarding. Sometimes you have to go back to go forward. I think I had to relearn this through a medium where there wasn’t as much at stake for me as writing.

Investigating craft has also given me a heightened visual sense of the worlds I write about that I don’t think I had before. Plus I ended up using the language of textiles as a metaphor in my writing.

]]> By: soozhttp://whipup.net/2007/05/06/book-review-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/#comment-119604 sooz Sun, 06 May 2007 11:10:26 +0000 http://whipup.net/2007/05/06/book-review-a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/#comment-119604 Love this idea! I've ordered one for a friend who is such a good writer yet she's not yet had the courage to explore that part of her. I also got one for me ;) Love this idea! I’ve ordered one for a friend who is such a good writer yet she’s not yet had the courage to explore that part of her. I also got one for me ;)

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