I think once the author stops trying to force-write the thing they’d originally intended to write, it opens the possibility for their material to evolve into a better story than they could have ever imagined.
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I could’ve not commented but I came along to say “no comment ” as this is effing spot on.
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So true. I’ve learned this time and time again, yet continue to delude myself that I can actually plan these books. Ha!
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Agreed with you all the way.
I recently discovered it’s great fun to set out the landscape, the general circumstances, introduce the characters and let them get on with it.
Best time I ever had writing.
I find it amazing that a story of some sort falls out of my head when I had no idea was one in there when I started. It’s the starting though, sometimes there’s just too much life to do first.
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Yeah I always tell my buddy that the first step of being creative is using creativity to find time to work on something.
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