Ghostwriter Talks About... Architects and Gardeners
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- There are two general approaches to writing projects. Are you a planner, an organizer, an architect? Or do you prefer to go with the flow, rely on your intuition, and just feel through the story? Let's dive into these styles of writing and how they can impact your ambitious writing projects!
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There were several times in this video I said, "Amen!" or "Yup. That's it." This made my teacher heart happy.
lol your not a grumpy lady, you’re just passionate about your experiences.
I find myself bouncing back and forth between these mindsets. Because it is legal where I am at, I find that I get high and write like a gardener before going over my work and planning ahead for the future while sober.
The industries I've seen, that have heavily used creative writing as part of their working process, all promote outlines over gardener approaches.
I've met gardeners as senior writers, but their works still hinge on outlines of the end products. You just can't escape outlining.
You might as well learn how to write it, even if you're a hardcore gardener.
I am both an architect and a gardener.
I plan my journey and path then take my clothes off and start running naked in the field. I eventually get bored and come back to the path. The results are usually more creative this way.
I start writing a new chapter by throwing the reader directly in the middle of the action, no matter what I promised in the last chapter. This gives the story the energy it deserves and keeps the reader awake “Oh, you expected to find out what ‘that one character’ meant in the last chapter? WELL, TOO BAD! Here is a scene of them fighting mole-men while one of them ends up drinking gorilla milk to gain the trust of the inbred fish people. All in the same scene! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Everything that I create during my world-building sessions is set in stone but the stories that happen in that world are subject to interpretation. “Oh, so the legends say that the Hero started and led a rebellion against the evil slaver empire? NOP! It turns out they hit their head, started speaking in tongues, and everyone thought they were a God-touched individual who was urging them to victory.”
As for character progression, I start by creating characters that people like, then stuff happens and they become “funny”. My current beta readers like this approach.
You are right about Tolkien being a gardener. I just re-read “The Fellowship of the Ring” and I don’t know how to explain it well but the man tends to wander off into his descriptions, sometimes repeating an image or a piece of lore while on the same page, as if living in a dream and re-exploring his own visions again and again. This reminded me of my 20s when I wrote in a similar way. I feel that gardeners enter a trance and then they lose themselves “like when the dream no longer needs the dreamer” and the story writes itself. You then read it the next morning and wonder who came into your room last night and wrote the masterpiece. Since there was never a time when you ever knew yourself to have such an imagination.
If you ever feel like you have writer's block while being a gardener, change your state by throwing a wrench in the story, thus changing the pacing and the dynamics but, eventually, return to the path while slowly gathering your clothing from the field.
You could also try to have a B and a C story and jump ship from one to the other if ever the A story becomes stale. Then return to the A story after some time passed.