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Hopalong

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Re: HELP - So Stuck need assistance
« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2008, 05:28:23 PM »
Hi Axa, and Leah:

IMO, one of the most helpful books on writing ever written is also one of the shortest.

The Elements of Style.

Maybe it would help you.

My best guidance, when you struggle with sentences, is to make them short.
You can always add and adjust phrasing.

It can also help to intentionally tell yourself, I'm going to write an extremely dull topic sentence to start this paragraph. Then I'm going to back up and put in two sentences that describe a "setting" or give background info. That way, an opening paragraph has a kind of build-up to it.

If that makes no sense, ignore...

The outline idea is excellent.

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Re: HELP - So Stuck need assistance
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2008, 10:45:31 AM »
Hi Axa, and Leah:

IMO, one of the most helpful books on writing ever written is also one of the shortest.

The Elements of Style.

Maybe it would help you.

My best guidance, when you struggle with sentences, is to make them short.
You can always add and adjust phrasing.

It can also help to intentionally tell yourself, I'm going to write an extremely dull topic sentence to start this paragraph. Then I'm going to back up and put in two sentences that describe a "setting" or give background info. That way, an opening paragraph has a kind of build-up to it.

If that makes no sense, ignore...

The outline idea is excellent.

xo
Hops


Dear Hops,

Valued and appreciated, very much.

Have made a note on my deskpad, of the book you have recommended.

Thank you very much.  Hope your day goes well for you, in all you do.

Love, Leah
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Re: HELP - So Stuck need assistance
« Reply #17 on: January 10, 2008, 10:53:27 AM »
Dear Axa,

Been thinking of you as I sit here at my desk, wondering how you are.

Love, Leah


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Re: HELP - So Stuck need assistance
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2008, 06:43:38 AM »
Just want to acknowledge all the wonderful helpful suggestions you guys have made.  Thank you so much.  Have done a little writing.......... gotta go now but will come back to this.  Just wanted to say I hear what you are saying and will give proper feedback later today.

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Re: HELP - So Stuck need assistance
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2008, 10:24:44 AM »
Been thinking about you too..... and praying you have someone right under your nose who adores editing papers..... and's good at it: )

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Re: HELP - So Stuck need assistance
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2008, 11:52:45 AM »
A huge thank you to you all.

I still am struggling with writing my paper but think I have passed the crisis, well, sort of.  I would love people's thoughts on this.  I think every time I "act out" or lose my sense of my adult self it is not necessarily about what is actually happening.  Yes, I am having great difficulty with writing my paper but I managed to write one before and hand it in on time.  I know some of you mentioned lack of confidence, everyone goes through this etc and I do think what you all said is true.  It is part of a process of writing something, forming and shaping it BUT I do not see it as a piece of work, it is as if my life depends on it.  And here is the big stumbling block for me.  I feel like I don't know the rules.

Not knowing the rules is what sets me into a spin.  With Xn what were "normal" rules went out the door so I was always in a state of flux.  The uncertainity and unpredictability nearly did my head in.  This is what I felt about writing the essay.  I was unsure of the rules.  I have not got a mark back from my first paper yet so I do not know where I am doing ok and/or not.  It is like being very lost and very very scared.  I got lost in the city when I was four years old and I have never forgotten that.  It is like reliving this also it has brought up more S!!! about XN.  My anger, which seemed like it as in the dim and distant past, has resurfaced with a vengence.  I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ANGRY and want to act out.  I am working with meditation because this seems to release me from my anger.  When will it ever end.

I think the paper will get written but will the anger ever go away?

axa