Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:44 pm Post
Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:44 pm Post
Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:45 pm Post
Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:45 pm Post
matt wrote:Does everyone else have the same reaction every year when they get their brief?
Mine goes something like this:
- THAT genre... but I don't know anything about THAT genre. I have never written in THAT genre before. Mental wards? I've only ever seen them under heavy sedation! Space ships? I would only go on one under heavy sedation! And now [omitted to keep the surprise]. I don't even [omitted], let alone [omitted].
- Alright, I've seen [insert TV show]. How hard can this be? Just copy what they did, but don't suck so much.
- Ok, I can do the paragraphs, but how in hell am I meant to tell how those kind of people really speak? I don't hang out with those kind of people. My dialogue is going to sound about as natural as a badly acted TV soap.
- Is that all you want me to write? I am meant to stretch that one measly paragraph into at least 1500 words of something someone would actually want to read? I can't do that. I need more information. Give me more information. What happens next? Give me the story dammit, I can't write under these conditions. I give up!
- Walk away from the computer*.
- Return 5 minutes later, re-read everything. Eh, its not so bad.
- Begin writing, have a ball, send it off, and forget how much I hate that first 15 minutes by the next year.
Anyway, should be fun. I love [omitted]. Some of my best friends are [redacted].
Matt
* Or write a post on the forum instead.
Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:46 pm Post
Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:46 pm Post
Restraint enhances creativity… There is far more creativity in creating something interesting out of a length of string, a balloon, a piece of chewed chewing gum, a bucket of wet concrete and the last third of a disintegrating 1970′s “penny banger” paperback western found in a dumpster behind a secondhand bookshop than being given free access to all the resources you could possibly want.
Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:47 pm Post
By the way, if you don't want someone to know they are writing the first chapter, you shouldn't leave “things that have already happened” blank!
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