Who Put The Fascination Back Into My Science Fiction Twin

How to be more interesting to other people » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk:

... one really cool thing someone taught me is that the color I choose is most interesting where it intersects with another color.  Just knowing the right color to use is not the clever, interesting thing. Rather, interesting is when I am unsure what the two colors will do when they interact.

The same is true for writing. The interesting part of writing is not the part of the piece where you know exactly where it’s going. The interesting part is when you get to an unplanned moment in a paragraph and you surprise yourself by what you write next. It’s the moment of uncertainty, when you have to look inside yourself to keep going, and pull out something you didn’t know you had before.

I've noticed that as I get older, I have more questions, and fewer answers, and I like that.

Comments

[munichmaedchen]

Very nicely said and nothing left to add. As long as I question something, I feel I expand my point of view, look at a matter from different perspectives, walk around it and notice that it looks different every time. Flickr wisdom I guess.