Comments on: Writing by Ear https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/ Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Beatriz F. https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-47113 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:27:31 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-47113 Such an interesting article! As a poet and non-musician I would like to think I am making music with words! People tell me I have a great ear but so far it has been more instinctive than deliberate in my writing. I am going to be more aware now.

]]> By: Belt out content like Freddie Mercury, not Spinal Tap | Bobbin About https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-43296 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 09:02:27 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-43296 […] writing and music are bedmates, here’s a great piece of writing from Shanan Haislip called Writing by Ear. Haislip describes the moment she first discovered the viola as a young girl and how, in her adult […]

]]> By: Julie Sheridan https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-20382 Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:38:37 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-20382 Great post, Shanan. I always envied the compositional and musical mastery of someone like Tori Amos, straddling her piano, with access to realms it seemed only music could reach. As a poet, I don’t have the same possibilities, but sound is essential to every poem I write. It just doesn’t cut it if the sound doesn’t make me shiver. I guess it’s music of a different sort.

]]> By: randy kraft https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-16905 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:09:47 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-16905 The first time I asked a known writer to critique my work he told me all good writers have rhythm and I had the rhythm. What is called voice or style is really rhythm. You nailed it. And you’ve got it. Cheers.

]]> By: Featuring Women Writers on WWWB 2013 - Women Writers, Women Books https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-14767 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:32:01 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-14767 […] in Crime Writing: A Pseudonym Story – Eve Seymour Finding your Muse – Trisha Ashley Writing by Ear – Shanan Haislip Growing a Thick Skin – K. A. Laity Age: a Writer’s Ally – […]

]]> By: Shanan https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-14177 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:51:21 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-14177 In reply to Barbara Froman.

Or, you know, thanks FOR reading (says post-coffee me) 🙂

]]> By: Shanan https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-14176 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 11:50:45 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-14176 In reply to Barbara Froman.

You’re welcome! Thanks your reading 🙂

]]> By: Weird (But Effective) Ways to Beat the Blank Page: Part 2 | The Procrastiwriter https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-13396 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:49:22 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-13396 […] recently published essay, “Writing by Ear,” went live on Women Writers, Women Books last month. For a measly 948 words, I spent three […]

]]> By: Barbara Froman https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-12805 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:43:21 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-12805 Your post really resonates. Many thanks for these views on a subject that is close to my heart. Wonderful!

]]> By: Jill Hockett https://booksbywomen.org/writing-by-ear-by-shanan-haislip/#comment-12291 Sun, 08 Dec 2013 15:08:05 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10382#comment-12291 The painter composes with brush strokes. The musician with notes. The dancer with body and feet. The writer with words.
To my mind all need soul, sensitivity, skill and singlemindedness.
I feel it is more worthy to repeat a familiar phrase but in your own way, than it is to invent a new line … with a lesser meaning.

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