Saturday, September 24, 2016

The Struggle That Most Writers Never Talk About

From Emerging Writers Studio:
The journey from imagination to page is inherently fraught with what Twyla Tharp calls, “divine dissatisfaction.” In the theater of our mind, our story is a multi-dimensional, techno-color, high-def world teaming with life. But inevitably, in our early attempts to transfer that vision onto the page, that world disintegrates. It’s where a lot of writers get lost. Or stop writing altogether. But the truth is, every writer worth his or her salt grapples with this very same struggle. (Read more.)
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2 comments:

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

If my own novel is not progressing, it is not that.

I simply am overburdened by too much sugar*, too little sleep and some days too many stupid questions posed on quora.

As if some network were deliberately trying to overburden me and poking in very different but all of them sensitive spots of my life and activity.

* You do realise that a homeless man can be given sugared products as alms, especially if suspected of being an alcoholic? And that with 10% Muslims in France and Paris region being Muslim denser than some others, this is easily the case without such a suspicion being true?

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

"In the theater of our mind, our story is a multi-dimensional, techno-color, high-def world teaming with life. But inevitably, in our early attempts to transfer that vision onto the page, that world disintegrates."

No. You simply start in all the bright spots. Like the first four chapters I wrote (not same as first four you read) of my Chronicle of Susan Pevensie.

Overview of all chapters

This aside was inserted into middle of the then only 22 chapters, and underlines the first four written

Inserting chapters between the extant ones works very well, if I have the leisure and well being for it.