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Nov. 2nd, 2002 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oakenguyStephen King's driving me nuts.
It's not his fault, of course. It's just that 'In Writing' he talks about his belief that stories are 'found objects', and that writing a story is an experience like excavating a fossil--you start knowing what's above the surface, but it's only in the process of writing do you discover what the true shape of the piece looks like.
It's novel-writing as improv. It goes against every Virgo instinct in my body. It's performing without a net. And knowing that he wrote 'Misery' like that, originally intending it to be a gruesome little 100-page story with a sick twist ending, and only discovering as he went along how interesting and resourceful his characters were...it makes me want to pull my hair out.
And yet....and yet....I'm trying it. Throwing out the outlines and obsessive chart-making that I've been struggling with in trying to write my scripts, and making it up as I go along.
And so far? So far (4000 words into it), it's working better than I imagined.
GodDAMN it.
It's not his fault, of course. It's just that 'In Writing' he talks about his belief that stories are 'found objects', and that writing a story is an experience like excavating a fossil--you start knowing what's above the surface, but it's only in the process of writing do you discover what the true shape of the piece looks like.
It's novel-writing as improv. It goes against every Virgo instinct in my body. It's performing without a net. And knowing that he wrote 'Misery' like that, originally intending it to be a gruesome little 100-page story with a sick twist ending, and only discovering as he went along how interesting and resourceful his characters were...it makes me want to pull my hair out.
And yet....and yet....I'm trying it. Throwing out the outlines and obsessive chart-making that I've been struggling with in trying to write my scripts, and making it up as I go along.
And so far? So far (4000 words into it), it's working better than I imagined.
GodDAMN it.
