Why rush life. Sure, it's the only the we really have but if we just go full speed without taking a moment to process and grow roots, what's the point?
A few years ago I took this creative writing class and my professor was great. Ten of my peers and I would sit in a circle with my professor and learn about the process of writing in a non-bland way. We could write and process however we chose, as long as we kept the story and characters organic.
We would have different writing exercises sometimes we would start with a subject. A mango for instance and other times we would develop a character. We would have to create every aspect of them to where we would be so in-tune with the character that there was only one decision they could possibly make within the story.
That is where I discovered my love of character development.
Through this way there was no possible way to spoil the ending of a story because I would walk with my character, I would have to feel what they felt.
I would be with them until the end of the story.
I'm taking a lesson from my character process. The end should not always be written first.
I have this knack for writing a story before it has even started. I take the element of surprise away and I erase the mystery.
I have a friend that always reads the ending before she starts the book.
Why do we live like that ?
Let us discover, let us process our day and stand strong in our story.
It is creation after all.
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