Uncovering Your Plot as an Intuitive Writer
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- Опубликовано: 29 ноя 2023
- If you're a "pantser" (you write by the seat of your pants), but you wish you were a plotter, this video is for you.
I'm a pantser but I prefer to call myself an intuitive writer. I feel my way into a novel - I don't (and can't) plan my way in.
So today I'm sharing my highly person ways of finding my way into the book I'm writing.
If you've ever struggled following someone else's formula, or written an outline that you later threw in the trash, or wanted to bang your head against the wall because your book wanted to do something and you weren't quite sure what, this talk is for you.
While it's focused on fiction writing, many of the tools will also apply to nonfiction writers.
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I love the archeology analogy-uncovering the story that is already there, and our job is to listen and follow as it reveals itself.
yes! So helpful, right? It's easier than "thinking it up."
Intuitive writers possess a unique gift. Embrace it, folks. With ADD I find it exceptionally hard to read books, but I can write them strangely.
I love this. YES. My therapist said to me once, "Learn to love your nature." Keep writing!!
This is my “home”. 😂 I’m so frustrated in my writing that I no longer even want a plot. That sounds stupid, but I want to write what pleases me, not what I am supposed to write in order to satisfy a string of story beats.
YESSSS!! It doesn't sound stupid at all! Write what pleases you. NOT according to someone else's idea of "story beats." Cheering you on!
Thank you for your instructive videos. I’m attempting to write a memoir about our 20 year journey with our son through addiction and depression. Alex was a handsome, smart young man who was unable to defeat his demons despite multiple 28 day inpatient programs and numerous doctors and therapists. He died last December after ingesting hand sanitizer and passing out in the cold. Dealing with a child’s death is uniquely excruciating, but my wife and I are blessed to not suffer guilt or regret. We loved Alex and did everything we could to help him. We learned that love is not enough sometimes. I have no idea if others will be interested in our story. He was a beautiful, happy little boy who had a loving family. It wasn’t enough. I will definitely need a lot of editing support. Alex had a passion for manual typewriters. I’m writing the first draft using his refurbished Olympia. I feel his warmth and see his smile every morning when I take the dust cover off his machine. I plan to finish writing this draft before thinking about what is next.
Sending you and your wife so much compassion. Not everyone can defeat addiction. Celebrating your commitment to writing your story. And I do offer editing support if that's something you'd like to explore: www.wearewritingbrave.com/firstdraft
After spending years listening to people online talk about structure and beats ans themes I got frustrated and just startes writing and so far it aeems to be working. The frustration also set off a lightning bolt as well. That helped me create know where I was going with all my characters. I have a day job plus two kids 2 & 7. So i write wherever and whenever i can. Even if its justa few sentences.
I'm cheering you on so much. I also can't think about beats and themes... I just have to GO. And also have two kids and run a business. Hooray for writing wherever / whenever you can!!
I like to “plot” thematically - in terms of mood - indexed to music. A song will direct me to write whatever pattern of mood shifts and rising and falling tempo changes within the music may suggest.
This is such an amazing idea!
OH MY GOD. I feel like I was meant to see this video today! I have JUST realised after working 10 f***ing years on the same story, that I am VERY much an intuitive writer, I just hate not knowing and letting my doubts and insecurity take over! Then you said your kids were 4 and 7 years old … SO IS MINE … 😂 And THEEEEEN, you told that you use ORACLE CARDS, LIKE I JUST BOUGHT!!!!! I have gotten the “INTUITION” card every time, along with the play and creativity card - I just LOVE that everything is fallen into place, and I am finally letting go of my old “security blanket” story and writing something new, I ham SO excited to figure out these characters! Thank you thank you thank you! SUBSCRIBED! ❤
Oh I love this so much! So much synchronicity! Let that intuition take over, and give your doubts and insecurity and "not knowing" parts a lot of compassion. You might love my free 30 Days of Writing Magic email series: writingbrave.kartra.com/page/30-days-of-writing-magic. Sending you lots of love and creative juice!!
Thank you Brooke, your amazing. I found you the end of last year. I have listened to everyone of your videos. My writing has taken off.
Oh I love hearing this! Thank you so much
Thank you for the video !
you're so welcome
I'm a complete beginner with no aspirations of writing seriously, yet my process even for writing an internet comment like this is something I can't seem to pinpoint in terms of "plotter" or "pantser" or "intuitive" or "methodological". I'm a bit confused about the distinctions.
What I do -- if I relate it to drawing -- is that I skip around all over the place and iterate and iterate. So if I'm drawing a portrait, I don't draw in a sequential fashion like draw a left eye and complete it in full detail, then right eye, and so forth. I move around the entire canvas all the time.
I need to do that because I'm a detail-obsessed person and -- if I spend too much time on anything without skipping and moving about -- I quickly lose sight of the forest for the trees. To be able to understand the relationship of every single part against every single other part I'm working on (so that the whole adds up harmoniously to more than the sum of its parts), I have to force myself to keep moving all over the place and never spend too much time on anything. Even if I'm tempted to detail something to the nth degree, I forcefully restrain myself and move onto something else which needs to be fleshed out more.
Is there a term for this type of iterative process among writers? I suspect if I ever became confident enough to write a book, I would just iterate and iterate over the outline until it becomes the book. I also don't see the difference between "outline" and "book". I just see an outline as a first draft, sparsely-detailed. Then with each iteration, it becomes more detailed and fleshed out. It's like if we start with the summary of a movie, we just keep iterating over it until it becomes the entire screenplay.
I love this! I iterate a lot in my writing, too. I don't know if there's a term for this... but there doesn't need to be! Keep letting your process work for you.
@@wearewritingbraveThank you very much!
I'm currently just at the introductory level of learning how to write engaging sentences. I come from a scientific background, and many of my instincts are opposite of what seems encouraged in fiction. For example, we tend to favor the passive voice in my field to provide an objective tone to the writing, whereas the active voice seems encouraged in fiction.
I might need to learn how to break a lifetime's worth of writing habits. Yet perhaps I can draft in passive voice and seek to make revise parts later. It generally helps me just to get ideas down on the page before they disappear from my memory.
Example: "The spoon was neglected and on the floor." Later I might try to revise this to, "While specks of luster hinted through the aging spoon, it now lay tarnished, bare, and long forgotten. Like the autumn leaves of the cold outside and the fleeting nature of my father's hair, it sat on the floor of our abandoned house, so caked in umber and the grey of dust." Is that too flowery? I also have a difficulty knowing when I might have gone overboard.
You have just changed my Life…
oh my goodness, yay
Every "Pantser" has their own term for the same thing. I guess it comes with the territory :D
I think the alternate terms are generally superior, more accurate.
It's totally subjective and whatever works for you!
This video just showed up at the top of my scroll. I can totally relate to this person. I also HAVE TO listen to music when I write. I even have special curated playlists that I listen to when I write. I've started writing a comic book series.
yesss! Me too
I use the Snowflake method - sort of. I love the idea of getting the big picture of my story, but I never really know how it ends, and no matter how much work I do on my characters, I really don't know them until I start writing them. And oh my word, your description of the story already existing and needing to find it is very much my process. I use the Snowflake method as the archeology camp so to speak. I have tried to use structure and while I love the idea of it, I just can't. Thank you so much for talking about this. There aren't very many people who talk about this way of writing. :)
I love this so much! I don't know the snowflake method so I'll have to go look it up! And - you're welcome. It's so nice having people resonate with this. We intuitive writers need to talk more about our process!
Thank you, i found out I was a turtle! I write at a certain time limit and a certain amount of words!
Love it! I'm a turtle too! :D
at times I feel like I'm a hare and my characters are turtle, and at times i feel I'm the turtle and my characters are the hare @@wearewritingbrave 🤣