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Monday, February 4, 2008

Releasing the Creative Energy in Story Writing

What is good fiction authorship technique? How make we unleash the originative energy through the channels of fictional character and story? Although I still learn technique, my accent have got changed and the techniques themselves have form shifted. I cognize now that the journeying of the author is first and first a journeying of self-discovery, the way on which we can happen kernel and hear the song of our soul. Trade and technique are necessary, but the fast one is to not set the cart before the horse. Technical expertness alone cannot release the writer's passion, and the perfectly turned phrase will delight the ego, but if it doesn't interpret into something meaningful for the fictional character and story, it is so much wasted word count. Not that there's anything incorrect with seeking the perfectly turned phrase. I make it myself. It's a great delectation for the mind; the job is when we mistake flawlessness of outer word form with essence.

Both technique and passionateness are critical in many ways, but I've worked with authors who are technically first-class but can't plumb the depths of the human condition. Conversely, I've worked with authors who have got great intuitive apprehension of the undertaking William William Faulkner put forth for authors -- "... the jobs of the human bosom in struggle with itself... alone can do good authorship because lone that is deserving authorship about, deserving the perspiration and the agony."-- but whose deficiency of technique flaws their narrative telling, sometimes to the point where they can't complete and give up in frustration.

But telling the jobs of the human bosom in struggle with itself is, for most, the more than hard of the two tasks. If we are to succeed, we must go forth our witting ego and all our mind's outlooks and journeying into the unknown, that topographic point of shadows, mist, birthrate and birth that cognizes neither right or wrong, that throws a truth beyond the mind's understanding. If we courageous this journey, we will emerge from the mists and shadows into a landscape more vivacious than the 1 we left behind. Miraculously, we happen ourselves writing the narrative we never thought we'd write, the narrative our heads could not gestate but our Black Maria hungriness to write.

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