Archive for April, 2008
Removing Roadblocks to Writing
When I first started writing, everything I saw around me looked like a roadblock to just getting the thing done.
One of the biggest roadblocks was that I didn’t just want to write randomly and “follow the muse” so to speak. I didn’t want write stories that only I would enjoy, and others would find difficult to engage or understand.
I’ve always felt that storytelling is a very social form of creativity in that your audience needs to buy into your story in order to accept it, and if they can’t buy into it, then they won’t be buying, period.
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Agile Script Development
There comes a time when it is prudent for a writer to look outside of the field of writing for solutions to getting a manuscript or script done. Among the nuggets of advice often given to writers is, “Write every day.” Although this may be great advice, more specific prescriptions for writerly behavior may be missing altogether.
As I’ve been wrestling with my script I found it difficult to organize a good writing schedule. The problem is any schedule worth following needs to be flexible, not just some rote punctual routine paced by ticking stop watches and blaring alarm clocks. We fired the inner nazi, remember? I need something that holds me accountable to the weeks and months, but not necessarily to the day, hour, or minute.
I also wanted a bit more than just a schedule. I wanted a organizational method for writing. Since writers are often woolly creative types who resist organization and embrace chaos I figured it was high time for me to look at some tricks of software development.
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