Let your mind not abide
Describe the forest and the tress and each and every leaf without lingering; the story must be complete without halting its flow.
Let character nor leaves nor trees detract from the other.
Description, dialog, scene, and character cannot be separate entities; in your writing there can be no dualism; each has to be a seamless part of a whole.
Should you abide in one aspect you create an artificial separation. Story is the seamless melding of all things without creating elements.
Be you hand, eye or foot? No, yet you have all these things in me. Story too must contain all things, but be not one.
Control your pen, and thoughts, but in doing so, ensure you let story light on what it will.
2 comments:
this explains why the stories that I manage to create with this characteristic are those I spent very little time affecting. They fall out of my fingers, if you will.
Heya, Hope, I think some of our best pieces come down like lightning through the pen, and then when we read back we think, “Hey, where did THAT come from?” This can be a little dangerous, because it leads to the idea that you need “inspiration” to write well.
I avoid the idea of inspiration and muses like plague; I’, bold enough to think that my mind will take an idea, or ideas, and work on them for months at a time, and finally, when the idea is ready, I can birth it on the page. I try and help that along by writing CONSTANTLY.
Hope has to be one of my greatest supporters- you can find a link for her blog, “Hope Radio” on the links bar. She is a VERY talented writer (though won’t admit it) and has a remarkable ability to capture the human element of the story. “Hope radio” is a fantastic blog that includes Hope’s personal thoughts and experiences, some beautiful stories and some great humor, take a visit, and you’ll be back for more = )
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