As Jerry Cleaver says in his book, Immediate Fiction, Creativity involves an unusual and contrary set of laws. If you violate them, you will expend enormous amounts of energy and get nowhere. People get into trouble and waste an awful lot of time because they don’t understand the rules of the creative process, which are very different from the way most of us tackle problems in life. His three rules: 1. You will make a mess. Creating stories is never a neat, orderly or predictable process. Mess is inevitable. You make a mess, you clean it up. You lose your way. You find it again. 2. You must write badly first. Trying to get it perfect right away will only get you blocked. Writers write a number of drafts to get it right. You’ll do better if you lower your expectations. 3. Mistakes lead to discovery. This is a game of mistakes. Mistakes and uncertainty are good. They create a new combination of possibilities. Good and bad go hand in hand. Letting yourself be bad is the best way to become good. Writing is an art and a craft, a dance between structure and imagination. from The Writers Studio https://facebook/writerstudio
Posted on: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 02:07:32 +0000