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Nov 11, 2007 10:51

It's a lovely, bright, sunny day out there today, very unlike the day 21 years ago when I moved to Massachusetts. It was snowing then, from the coast all the way to northern NY, from where I was driving. It's not very warm though, so I will get bundled up before I head outside to roam in the woods ( Read more... )

acting, anniversaries, writing

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pjthompson November 11 2007, 20:07:42 UTC
There very much is such a thing as Method Acting in writing. I used a mild form of it myself. And Elizabeth Bear writes of a more dedicated version of it here:

http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/2007/11/07/clinging/

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lizziebelle November 11 2007, 22:23:17 UTC
Cool, thanks!

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chalkhorse November 13 2007, 00:17:31 UTC
When I used to write scripts (I wrote a full length play for my MFA) I often found that character "voices" eally took over and wrote their own dialogue. I would be surprised looing at what I wrote days later to find I had not really remembered writing all of it. It's a really exciting but strange phenomenon! So maybe this character is speaking through you, too.

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