Post by account_disabled on Jan 3, 2024 6:26:33 GMT
Participating in creative writing courses is immediately linked to the possibility of writing and publishing a novel, but in reality, if the course is well developed, all facets of the creation of a story are examined, which certainly does not start from the incipit. So, what is the true creative part of writing , the one to which we owe the writing of a novel or a story? Where do the stories come from? From ideas? Ok, and where do the ideas come from? We risk entering a vicious circle. Someone says that an idea is a stimulus , an input that we receive from the environment around us, but then why do these stimuli, ideas for stories I mean, reach only some and not everyone? A writer is someone who is receptive to these stimuli , then – receptive and able to conclude them, too. Not everyone has story ideas, we know that.
But where do they actually come from? I enjoyed taking a look at the list of stories I pinned down: for some I created a specific document in Writer, while others coexist in the same file. I remember that some Special Data stories were born while reading , one sentence was enough to unleash my imagination and make me imagine a story. A word that, despite itself, has become a hook. For others I don't remember anything at all. I am receptive to the environment, anything can become an idea, but not all ideas can become stories, this must be said. I often take notes, but then, partly due to time and partly due to passion, not all note-ideas are transformed and will be transformed into stories. How is a plot born? From an idea? Certainly. But how do you get there from idea to plot? What leads a writer to develop an idea and turn it into a plot? Don't tell me you have the whole story in your head, because that's not possible.
You can have at most the general idea in your head. The finished story exists only after the first draft, not before. The plot was born thanks to the creative effort of the writer . The idea for me is a title, at least most of the time. In some cases I write a line or two, to stop the ideas, in fact I started doing this some time ago, after finding myself with titles that now mean absolutely nothing to me. When you miss the moment, it escapes and the brain erases everything. But that's not a story, I've written it several times. I'm full of ideas like this, there will be a hundred of them, but in the end how many of those will become stories, finished books? Let's take the example of Harry Potter: the idea is that of an orphan child who receives an invitation to attend a wizarding school. But the plot is very different, because it requires subplots, the development of the past of the main characters, the creation of the characters themselves.
But where do they actually come from? I enjoyed taking a look at the list of stories I pinned down: for some I created a specific document in Writer, while others coexist in the same file. I remember that some Special Data stories were born while reading , one sentence was enough to unleash my imagination and make me imagine a story. A word that, despite itself, has become a hook. For others I don't remember anything at all. I am receptive to the environment, anything can become an idea, but not all ideas can become stories, this must be said. I often take notes, but then, partly due to time and partly due to passion, not all note-ideas are transformed and will be transformed into stories. How is a plot born? From an idea? Certainly. But how do you get there from idea to plot? What leads a writer to develop an idea and turn it into a plot? Don't tell me you have the whole story in your head, because that's not possible.
You can have at most the general idea in your head. The finished story exists only after the first draft, not before. The plot was born thanks to the creative effort of the writer . The idea for me is a title, at least most of the time. In some cases I write a line or two, to stop the ideas, in fact I started doing this some time ago, after finding myself with titles that now mean absolutely nothing to me. When you miss the moment, it escapes and the brain erases everything. But that's not a story, I've written it several times. I'm full of ideas like this, there will be a hundred of them, but in the end how many of those will become stories, finished books? Let's take the example of Harry Potter: the idea is that of an orphan child who receives an invitation to attend a wizarding school. But the plot is very different, because it requires subplots, the development of the past of the main characters, the creation of the characters themselves.