Sunday 14 July 2013

Pad and pen lives again

Honestly, I did not want to write a blog post. My writing keeps hitting road blocks because I do not know the whip of the moments. The solution is pad and pen. The most rudimentary tool for storytelling is the brain. I can only fully exploit this if I have ink and parchment, it provides a pathway for my mind to evolve an idea and seamlessly come up with new ideas to a story in a stream of consciousness way, without losing where I am going.

I have discovered new moments. That build up the story, to make it stronger and more unique. The process has given me things such as character motivation and weakness and strengths. I have learnt more about the universe of this story, by reflecting on death and the role it has. A minor detail that won't be examined in the story, but it has helped.

Slow progress is still progress and 25 minutes a day forces me to never allow failure. It will be three weeks since I started and it can be hard, but once you get started: it gets easier.