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writer's life? 5/19/2005 10:38:11 PM
I've met a lot of writers, and it seems like the thing we do best is ... AVOID writing. I had a rehearsal for "The Crawl" (upcoming film project) this afternoon. It was a real process of discovery. The more we tried to get the characters just right, the more nuances and subtext came to the surface.
A very good exercise for any writer to go through: hearing other people interpret their characters and read their dialog.
I'd chat more, but that would fall in the category of "avoiding" things. Time to grab a notebook and look for stories.
I did come up with a thought today about how to change the beginning of my last novels to ward off some of the complaints editors had. The current first chapter could become a story of its own (a tie-in), while I replace it with a new scene introducing the main character in a different way.
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