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Writing Life
Aug. 3rd, 2017 03:51 pm“Fiction enabled me to reverse what had happened in reality, with impunity.”
-- Sheila Kohler
This is a tempting idea, to give one a way forward to write, even if only as therapy. The pitfall is the credibility of your reworked scenario.
For example, here is the beginning of a story: I won the lottery for 50 million dollars! I'm rich, I'm rich!
How long can this idea be fun, before you simply feel silly and ridiculous?
But one response might be: Well, how much are you willing to put into it? If winning the big lottery is that big a dream or obsession for you, then you need to live that 'reality' deeply. First, maybe, you go pricing fancy sports cars, hunting up the prices and model names. Of course, this fantasy is pointless without girls and sex. So, you might want to think about who your first catch is. Is she a blonde? Is she a wit, or does she just have big tits? Is she a waitress? or is she a college student? And, yeah, what is her name?
You have to take it seriously, spend real time and effort on it, writing and revising, making this come alive on the page.
On the other hand, if you cannot be bothered to spend more than half an hour on it, or be resourceful enough to google up some sports cars, or pick a girl from the pornos, and write more than a few hundred words, then maybe this lottery idea is not the ticket for you. Worse yet, if you cannot come up with an idea that can animate you into some serious work, then maybe writing isn't really what you are about. Maybe you thought, just because you have strung some good sentences in your time, it would be an easy way to make it to the big life, like winning the lottery.
-- Sheila Kohler
This is a tempting idea, to give one a way forward to write, even if only as therapy. The pitfall is the credibility of your reworked scenario.
For example, here is the beginning of a story: I won the lottery for 50 million dollars! I'm rich, I'm rich!
How long can this idea be fun, before you simply feel silly and ridiculous?
But one response might be: Well, how much are you willing to put into it? If winning the big lottery is that big a dream or obsession for you, then you need to live that 'reality' deeply. First, maybe, you go pricing fancy sports cars, hunting up the prices and model names. Of course, this fantasy is pointless without girls and sex. So, you might want to think about who your first catch is. Is she a blonde? Is she a wit, or does she just have big tits? Is she a waitress? or is she a college student? And, yeah, what is her name?
You have to take it seriously, spend real time and effort on it, writing and revising, making this come alive on the page.
On the other hand, if you cannot be bothered to spend more than half an hour on it, or be resourceful enough to google up some sports cars, or pick a girl from the pornos, and write more than a few hundred words, then maybe this lottery idea is not the ticket for you. Worse yet, if you cannot come up with an idea that can animate you into some serious work, then maybe writing isn't really what you are about. Maybe you thought, just because you have strung some good sentences in your time, it would be an easy way to make it to the big life, like winning the lottery.
