Comments on: Those Who Can, Do http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/ over 5 billion neurons served Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Bill Bottorff http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/comment-page-1/#comment-12794 Bill Bottorff Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:35:27 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/#comment-12794 Or another way to look at it is: Those that do, can! Those that don't can't. You just do what you can and do it over and over till it become art. Doesn't make any difference if it has been done before, or if it is ordinary or not ordinary or whatever. Just do it! And do it better every time. And someday, someone will say: That's how Maureen would have done it! She didn't waste any time. She just did it! She taught plot! Or tot plaught, or whatever. Have fun. Bill Or another way to look at it is:
Those that do, can!
Those that don’t can’t.
You just do what you can and do it over and over till it become art. Doesn’t make any difference if it has been done before, or if it is ordinary or not ordinary or whatever.
Just do it! And do it better every time. And someday, someone will say:
That’s how Maureen would have done it! She didn’t waste any time. She just did it! She taught plot! Or tot plaught, or whatever. Have fun.
Bill

]]> By: Beth Adele Long http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/comment-page-1/#comment-12771 Beth Adele Long Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:58:29 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/#comment-12771 LOVE the choice of illustration! LOVE the choice of illustration!

]]> By: Steven Gould http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/comment-page-1/#comment-12769 Steven Gould Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:46:58 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/#comment-12769 My thing is consequences. When the plot has nothing to do with the consequences of the characters' choices, I get...cranky. My thing is consequences. When the plot has nothing to do with the consequences of the characters’ choices, I get…cranky.

]]> By: Maureen McQ http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/comment-page-1/#comment-12763 Maureen McQ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:38:04 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/#comment-12763 Ken, will do. Although it's kind of weird to have it come from an Irish shiksa. I'm gonna post the exercises in my blog as we do them, if I have an internet connection. Unless, of course, they end up sucking. Ken, will do. Although it’s kind of weird to have it come from an Irish shiksa.

I’m gonna post the exercises in my blog as we do them, if I have an internet connection. Unless, of course, they end up sucking.

]]> By: Ken Houghton http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/comment-page-1/#comment-12762 Ken Houghton Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:16:42 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/#comment-12762 Try teaching plot as something that arises naturally from what the characters do, so long as the writer keeps in mind that what they are telling must answer The First Question: "Ma nishta..." Try teaching plot as something that arises naturally from what the characters do, so long as the writer keeps in mind that what they are telling must answer The First Question: “Ma nishta…”

]]> By: Morgan J. Locke http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/comment-page-1/#comment-12761 Morgan J. Locke Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:11:45 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/#comment-12761 Yes -- we'll be interested to read about how it goes. Yes — we’ll be interested to read about how it goes.

]]> By: Madeleine Robins http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/comment-page-1/#comment-12756 Madeleine Robins Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:17:25 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/06/13/those-who-can-do/#comment-12756 Report back, will you? Report back, will you?

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