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Musings from earlier this week: I keep coming back to my “E”. I love the word “Earnest” in relationship to writing and writers, but I am having a challenge with finding a quote that works. They’re all too… not quite right. It has intrigued me to see all the quotes I find for words like earnest. I decided they were all too weak, except for this one from Randy Pausch but his didn’t have all that much to do with writing. Well, at least it didn’t appear to have much to do about writing on the surface.
Here’s what he said:
“I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.”
I wonder, Randy, if earnest people may also, on occasion be hip, too?
Earnest people have “sincere and intense conviction,” my friend Merriam Webster tells me.
I decided to try out writing my own quote.
“Some say it isn’t sexy to be earnest. I say if you can write something absolutely ridiculous with an earnest inflection in your writing voice, your words will go places you never expected.”
I decide to keep it.
Questions
What is a moment in your life when you witnessed someone who was particularly earnest? Describe it in a few sentences. Dig deeper, if you would like, up to 300 words but no more. Go.
When have you felt the most earnest. What was the topic?
Lists
Make a list of 3 to 10 things about which you feel strongly.
Refine that list to 1 or 2 which you feel the most earnest about and take a moment to write why in five sentences or fewer.
Traditional Writing Prompts:
When I feel strong convictions about a cause, I….
When I sign letters, ‘sincerely yours’ what I really mean to say is….
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