The article deals with the phase immediately preceding the start of drafting of a text and helps to deal with traditional "fear" from aspiring writer.
The idea all started with an idea. This is the starting point. Be careful, I said "an idea" I did not say "a history". An idea is something vague contours faded, a thought that stays there in the air without taking shape or color. A story is something else, which will come with time.
When you start to write anything, be it a short story, a fairy tale or a novel three thousand pages of the river, triggering the spark is always the same: an idea that comes to mind and on which we begin to weave our thoughts. The classic light bulb that lights up in the head, as seen in cartoons.
may arise from a seemingly insignificant event, the lady who sits in front of us on the train, a coffee drink in a bar, a bike ride. Every aspect of daily life can give rise to the creative spark within us.
When people ask me about my books, many wonder if when I begin to write the whole story in mind. Of course not, I answer and they look at me as if I had disappointed.
When I sit in front of the computer and began to jot down the phrases I did not think of anything about the plot of the story. I just know I want to give birth to an idea. I once said: "I write a story that has as its main theme the music jazz. "This idea was the trigger. I started to beat on the keys of the keyboard without even knowing what I could talk and was born" The gentle sound of the time. "So
The first myth to dispel is that the writers start to write a story having already fully defined on every point. It is not true. A writer herself to be carried by writing, without benefiting from their own imagination when writing and make some choices, decisions, invents characters that had not the slightest thought, whereas others believed it leaves perfect and when it reaches the end of the story I wrote only vaguely resembles the one he had in mind.
Paulo Coelho (and not the first arrived) so I describe the mental process of writing in his book "The Zahir", published by Bompiani:
"And so began, for a sort of obligation - but, unexpectedly, that "thing" takes hold of me, and I did not stop. The maid tells me that dinner is ready, please do not interrupt me. An hour later, to call me back. I'm hungry, but I want to write one more line a sentence of a page. When I sit at the table, the food is cold. Ceno quickly, and I'll be back to the computer ... I no longer control my feet: the 'island is unfolding, and I come pushed along paths and encounter things that I never imagined nor dreamed. "
So the first" network of advice "I would give to an aspiring writer, is as follows:
- Do not be afraid to start writing without a clear idea of \u200b\u200bthe topic;
- Be curious and observe the world around you: every aspect is an endless source of ideas;
- Pursue every idea you have with enthusiasm, all of them can turn into a winning story;
- Be critical of yourself, not all the ideas that You will be valid.
Have an idea
"An idea, a concept, an idea remains an idea until
is only an abstraction if I could eat I made my idea
revolution "
Giorgio Gaber, an idea.
If I could explain how to have a winning idea to claim the Nobel Prize for omniscience.
There is a method, a series of exercises that help to get an idea. Each of us follows a different thought process and unique, based on their abilities, their cultural background, his mental agility or the spirit of observation.
idea could be anything. You draw from your everyday life, from your experience, some travel, a situation which you were the protagonists or observers. Paul Village for example, has created the world based rag.Fantozzi on experiences in first person when he was employed by a major company in Genoa.
This means that every moment that you live could be a source of ideas.
For example, "Parisian night" originated from the vision of a piece of the movie "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart. Have been even ten minutes but then I realized that I wanted to write a noir, dark tones, set at that time. I did not know anything else. The fact that we set in Paris, to create all those characters, the painting by Picasso around which the events are born during the writing aspects but when I started writing I was totally unknown.
approach Initial
be critical of themselves, this is a double edged sword. Usually
(apart from very rare exceptions), an aspiring writer is a person sit on the fence, with low self-esteem and who keeps asking "why would anyone read what I write?" (I was in the same situation).
In fact the last sentence is the wrong attitude because a reader would be willing to read a book by an unknown if he had just the idea or feeling that it is un'opra quality. This inherent uncertainty
has the advantage of making very strict and selective aspiring writer, but at the same time can bring it to throw winning ideas. We must try to write on every idea that comes to mind and will be the writing itself to give the final decision.
I do: I have an idea when I throw down a piece that can go from the first ten lines to two pages of the standard Word format (two A4 sheets). Then I try to feel what gave me the writing. I was happy as I did? The words came out spontaneously? The inspiration was a savage or forced? But the most important: I enjoyed while writing?
The latter question is the most important of all. A thousand budding writers only one becomes a professional. The others are amateurs. So that one writer will make Write a means of earning a living and be able to compromise, to write about things that interest him up to publish works good only for marketing. The other 999 are doing it for passion and this means that: writing should be fun .
"is written to be read and to deceive the world," says Roberto Cotroneo. True, but is written mainly to benefit from it. I like to say that I write because I love it and because I am convinced that we must do so if he feels the need.
Who asks me advice I always say that I need to have a good feel for what I write. If I continue to distract me while I create, are not focused, I open the mail box to monitor continuously if I have new mail, it means that writing was a burden, an exercise that I was not satisfied, and essentially a waste of time. If the writing has been a continuous process, which has pushed my imagination to work, which made me happy and gave me the feeling of having created something good (it's a feeling that comes in, regardless of the level of self-esteem you have) then it means that I have written something worth my efforts.
I understand above all by a particular feeling and unique will not be able to take your hands off the keyboard. Every thought is open to your idea, the only desire is not to be disturbed, you will think to call his girlfriend and terminate the meeting with her to keep on creating. If this happens to you (the thing everyone will live in his own way, everything is very personal) then it means that between you and your idea has run established the right feeling.
So, once you've got an idea and it seems that it is time to turn it into something more concrete, write whatever comes to mind for about an hour and then do an audit of the sensations experienced. Ask yourself questions like:
- The writing was a continuous process, or I would stop every three words?
- I was concentrating on what I was doing, or kept going to the bathroom, get up, to comb through the Internet?
- What I felt while writing?
- Now that I finished what I feel?
- I am happy to have spent time writing this?
- I feel the desire to continue or I can not wait to pull it all?
According to feelings experienced (or would like to say a friend of mine "on the basis of feedback) we can understand the idea that if we were worth our efforts.
For example one of my dreams was to write a story that tells the story of the birth of house music, because I love that genre. I checked and I studied the history and its protagonists and I started to write. Every time I started suffering always the same "noise": the writing was slow and difficult to move, I was devoid of ideas, I had the impression of being repetitive, I could not wait to write a paragraph so I could stop and read it again. This means that the idea, as I had loved and felt I was not right for me. Maybe some other writer will write the best novel about the house music ever written but it certainly will not be me.
be able to understand when an idea is not for us is the first step towards the creation of quality works.
Fear the hundredth page
E 'fear worst of all, the mother of all fears aspiring writer, the one that haunts us regardless of the quality of the idea that you have in mind: "How I to write three hundred pages with this idea? ".
A question out of place.
This insecurity comes from education school that has imposed the rule that all of the papers should be of a certain length, or are unsuitable." The theme must be at least four pages of protocol sheet, "thundered my teacher of Italian, as if you could not express the same concept in just two sides.
The first is to dispel this stereotype: the brevity does not mean lack of quality .
Take the novels of George Simenon's Inspector Maigret, for example. seldom exceed one hundred and fifty pages in paperback, some have less than a hundred. Yet they can be exciting well structured and well despite being short. Borges is another. His books are masterpieces and rarely have more than one hundred pages in length.
E 'common opinion that a three hundred page novel is much more interesting, well constructed and certainly more valid than one of seventy-five. Very often it is just the opposite. M'è happened to read books that were lost in philosophical treatises, in long flashback, in dialogues that seemed unnecessary to stretch the text just inserted. Sometimes I even tried to blow up a dozen pages before you find some 'action.
Knowing how to focus a good story in a few lines is much harder than it sounds. This is because
each writer is included in the text resulted in anything comes to mind, stretching it even when not needed. Above all, under revision, it is very difficult to delete it after writing.
In another lesson we will discuss this issue but for now it is important to understand this:
The length does not matter, what matters is the quality of the text.
When you start to write at least not think about how many pages will be able to cover your work. It 's a thought (sometimes even an obsession) of up to spoil the pleasure of writing.
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