Day Trip and writing
Go here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/5091813/Stuffs-short-film-festival-Day-Trip
To watch a simple, ten minute film that says a lot despite having enough words of dialogue to fit on two hands. A man steps out of the box and finds it as difficult and as easy as one might expect. Possibly an idyllic portrayal of New Zealand race relations, but then again, not really.
And on a different note--
I've decided to start posting an ongoing numbered list of stuff that helps me write when I don't have a goddamn RP partner to do half the work. Maybe it will help you too. Maybe you will agree or disagree. Maybe you will not read these at all but that's cool too. Dogs and cats living together.
1. Thinking on a big blank sheet of paper seems to be my thing. A3 (I dunno if that translates in America) sized, preferably with a permanent marker, there's a freedom to it where if I am stuck on an idea, I just jot down all the existing ideas as if to clear my brain and somehow, ideas or solutions start striking me. I've been doing this with RPG plotting too. Almost every storyline I've had a direct hand in has an incoherent thought tree jotted down somewhere, usually phrases/words with arrows connecting them. I think maybe it's the pen fumes.
2. Reading. Reading bad writing helps affirm that you don't need to be the next Janet Fitch to be a good artist or writer, reading good writing makes you want to try anyway, reading within genre helps narrow your focus, reading outside of the genre helps expand your ideas.
3. Structure is important.
4. More reading. But also, it is almost a guarantee that Your Favourite Author has written about writing somewhere you can see it -- a blog, or a book, or an article. People who like to write like to write about writing (hi). If there is no whole product down this vein, then find some forewords in books you like. I find reading the words of an author you respect can help, even if the advice is implicit.
That seems like a good start for now. More later, erratically.
(It should also be stated that this is not intended to be like. PROFESSIONAL ADVICE or having any illusions that I am qualified to teach people or even advise. This is me making reflections on my own ongoing discoveries as an amateur and thus everything is subject to change. So now I’m not accountable nor hypocritical, so that’s great.)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/5091813/Stuffs-short-film-festival-Day-Trip
To watch a simple, ten minute film that says a lot despite having enough words of dialogue to fit on two hands. A man steps out of the box and finds it as difficult and as easy as one might expect. Possibly an idyllic portrayal of New Zealand race relations, but then again, not really.
And on a different note--
I've decided to start posting an ongoing numbered list of stuff that helps me write when I don't have a goddamn RP partner to do half the work. Maybe it will help you too. Maybe you will agree or disagree. Maybe you will not read these at all but that's cool too. Dogs and cats living together.
1. Thinking on a big blank sheet of paper seems to be my thing. A3 (I dunno if that translates in America) sized, preferably with a permanent marker, there's a freedom to it where if I am stuck on an idea, I just jot down all the existing ideas as if to clear my brain and somehow, ideas or solutions start striking me. I've been doing this with RPG plotting too. Almost every storyline I've had a direct hand in has an incoherent thought tree jotted down somewhere, usually phrases/words with arrows connecting them. I think maybe it's the pen fumes.
2. Reading. Reading bad writing helps affirm that you don't need to be the next Janet Fitch to be a good artist or writer, reading good writing makes you want to try anyway, reading within genre helps narrow your focus, reading outside of the genre helps expand your ideas.
3. Structure is important.
4. More reading. But also, it is almost a guarantee that Your Favourite Author has written about writing somewhere you can see it -- a blog, or a book, or an article. People who like to write like to write about writing (hi). If there is no whole product down this vein, then find some forewords in books you like. I find reading the words of an author you respect can help, even if the advice is implicit.
That seems like a good start for now. More later, erratically.
(It should also be stated that this is not intended to be like. PROFESSIONAL ADVICE or having any illusions that I am qualified to teach people or even advise. This is me making reflections on my own ongoing discoveries as an amateur and thus everything is subject to change. So now I’m not accountable nor hypocritical, so that’s great.)