I really like it when you share these. The importance of focusing, distilling everything down to what's essential, is something I'm also finding. I really don't Have to follow my characters every single minute of every day. That's what we call a documentary, and a boring one, at that. Fiction is something altogether different
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Because we human beings respond to patterns and structure.
True true, so true! And art is artifice.
For me, the more conscious I can make my process, the better able I am to examine it & improve it. There are some things about writing that I'm happy to leave as mystery: where the images and ideas come from, when they're burbling up. But once the raw materials are on paper in some form, time to be aware of process and to think about how we go about arranging them into story.
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True true, so true! And art is artifice.
For me, the more conscious I can make my process, the better able I am to examine it & improve it. There are some things about writing that I'm happy to leave as mystery: where the images and ideas come from, when they're burbling up. But once the raw materials are on paper in some form, time to be aware of process and to think about how we go about arranging them into story.
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