{"id":487,"date":"2017-11-07T21:18:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2017-11-07T21:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:18:27","slug":"seven-lessons-ralph-keyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writingroutines.com\/seven-lessons-ralph-keyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Writing Fears As Fuel: Seven Lessons From Ralph Keyes, Author of The Courage to Write"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ralph Keyes book <\/span>The Courage to Write<\/span><\/i><\/a> may not be as widely read as <\/span>On Writing Well<\/span><\/i><\/a> by William Zinsser or <\/span>Bird by Bird<\/span><\/i><\/a> by Anne Lamott, but it\u2019s useful tonic for anyone who writes. Keyes is a writing teacher and author himself, and like Lamott and Zinsser, his book <\/span>The Courage to Write<\/span><\/i><\/a> is an honest, bracing look at writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019s at his best when he talks about fear, anxiety, confidence, and overcoming the mental hurdles that writers face. The book itself should be on any writer\u2019s bedside, and we\u2019ve distilled seven lessons from it\u2014though it is packed with dozens more!<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Always have a project on-deck<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Keyes, like other aspiring writers, discusses how he slips into a \u201cblack trough of despair\u201d after mailing in his first manuscript. He didn\u2019t think it would go that way. He figured he\u2019d have joy, ample time, and \u201call the fun times I\u2019d promised myself\u2014weekends off, trips to town, lunch with friends.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

    He tried many ways to cope, but what he found to be best was \u201cto make sure I had a new project to tackle after no more than a weekend\u2019s respite; preferably a new book.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Accept that the work will never be as good as you imagine it is before you start writing<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      In a moving series of reflections, Keyes talks about the pain that writers feel when the words on the page don\u2019t match the perfect image in their minds. He quotes Iris Murdoch, who observed, \u201cEvery book is the wreck of a perfect idea.\u201d In the end, the thing to do when working on any writing project is to accept that what appears on the page will be \u201cthe closest facsimile\u201d to what you have in your mind\u2019s eye. Good work \u201cis never completed, only abandoned.\u201d Once you accept that, Keyes writes, writers are left with a \u201ccruel choice: shall they leave their premature baby in a basket on some publisher\u2019s doorstep, or shall they hide that poor child in the basement and turn away from writing as an impossible dream?\u201d<\/p>\n

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        Fear is good fuel<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Keyes begins his book on a simple foundation: that anxiety is part of the process. Or, as he puts it, \u201cThey\u2019re what make writing so challenging and satisfying.\u201d In fact, he\u2019s able as a teacher to identify the student who is scared, and so single them out as someone who is in the right frame of mind for serious writing. \u201cIf they can then use that anxiety to fertilize their work,\u201d he writes, \u201cwriting may be in their future. A willingness to confront the fear of putting words on paper is an excellent basis for becoming a writer.\u201d Given how many other books try to brute-force us through our writing fears, Keyes\u2019s volume is a refreshing reminder to make fear our companion, to accept it as something that is along for the ride. Or, as <\/span>Margaret Atwood<\/span><\/a> put it, \u201cBlank pages inspire me with terror.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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          Great writers\u2014hell, nearly all writers\u2014are fearful writers<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          \u201cWriting fears are nearly universal,\u201d Keyes concludes. From the greats to the amateurs, <\/span>everyone<\/span><\/i> is afraid to commit pen to paper. In fact, part of his reason for writing the book was that most material he found out there \u201conly strike fear a glancing blow. They rarely address the crippling inhibitions that keep even gifted writers from getting material out of their head, onto paper, and into the mail.\u201d But both as a student of writing and as a teacher of it, Keyes found that time and again, talented writers stood terrified before the page. So if you\u2019re afraid, fret not: You\u2019re in good company. \u201cThe trail of literary history is littered with those who fell along the way because the anxiety of trying to write paralyzed their hand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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            If it\u2019s personal, revealing, and makes you queasy to think about putting on paper, then it might be worth something.<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Keyes got invited to a high school reunion\u2014and grew so anxious at the prospect of going back that it turned into the subject of a whole book, <\/span>Is <\/span><\/i>There Life After High School?<\/span><\/i><\/a>. When you\u2019re thinking about what to write, your mind will search for what\u2019s personal. Or as Keyes put it, \u201clike a tongue searching out cracked fillings, an inner scan for writing ideas makes a beeline for tender parts of our psyche.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

            Give in to those feelings. Embrace the discomfort. Keyes faced embarrassment in writing his book about high school, but it led to a piece of writing that remains one of his favorites. \u201cThat\u2019s the bind writers face,\u201d he concludes, \u201ctheir best ideas are personal, candid, and deeply felt. Yet such ideas make them feel sunbaked before the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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              Identify your \u201ccensor in chief\u201d <\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Better than anyone, Keyes understands one of the writer\u2019s chief fears:<\/span><\/p>\n

              Anxiety about reactions by others can cripple a writer. When expressed at all, this fear is usually articulated as, \u2018What will people think of me when they read what I\u2019ve written?\u2019 But it\u2019s not \u201cpeople\u201d we\u2019re most scared of. It\u2019s specific individuals. The opinion of fuzzy thousands (or millions) of readers isn\u2019t what inhibits us most as we ponder our choice of words. Rather it\u2019s the grown on a few faces that come clearly into focus: the typist, the guys at work, our mate, our kids.<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

              Keyes advice to his students? Picture the person \u201cwhose response\u2026concerns them the most.\u201d Picturing that one person can dampen the fear. \u201cImagining how we\u2019ll deal with him helps. Simply identifying our censor in chief can be a revelation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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                Don\u2019t worry about impure motives for producing your work<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                \u201cFor public consumption,\u201d Keyes observers, \u201cwriters like to claim that they work in the service of art, creativity, and the public good. No writer who\u2019s given the matter serious consideration believes any such thing.\u201d To the question of <\/span>Why you write?<\/span><\/i> Keyes is refreshingly unsentimental about the answer: don\u2019t worry about it. Everyone has \u201ca mixed bag of motives.\u201d He quotes William Gass, \u201cWriting a book is such a complicated, long-term, difficult process that all of the possible motives that can funnel in will, and a great many of those motives will be base.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                Ralph Keyes book The Courage to Write may not be as widely read as On Writing Well by William Zinsser or Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, but it\u2019s useful tonic for anyone who writes. 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