One day I want to sit down with my favourite writers and give them lots of alcohol and be like “this is going to be a fucked up conversation, but let’s talk about thinking and writing.”
I desperately want to know what goes on in other people’s heads, especially when they’re writing. Is it mechanical? Organic? Are you plotting and scripting and drawing things up like an architect? Or are you having a blazing row with some asshole that is swearing he would never say the words you are trying to convince him are essential to a scene? Is it somewhere between? Are you a god, bending the world to your will? Or do you feel like you are the tool (ha!) with minimal input of your own? Do you deal with words and the characters follow? Or characters and the words follow?
I have so many questions about so many things. This isn’t even scratching the surface. I am dying to know.
That doesn’t seem like a fucked up conversation. A lot of the writers I hang out with talk about this stuff on a regular basis. Alcohol isn’t even necessary. Although I’m sure most of them wouldn’t complain.
This is all just part of the writing process, honestly, and understanding it and harnessing it is one of the skill sets a writer might want to cultivate. This stuff tends to be a hidden part of the process for a lot of us, so it can often be getting in our way without us even knowing about it. I bet you’d find it super useful to hit some of them up about this! And if they haven’t talked or thought about it before, you may end up doing them a favor too.
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