Journal of Awful Fiction
Jun. 11th, 2021 05:28 pm So far this week I have written two scenes for my "journal of awful fiction" project. The first was about a nude woman reaching through a waterfall to grasp a key. Today's scene was an old man living on a beach in the depths of an ice age. There is also a dragon turtle involved.
I am following a series on writing by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ecosophia from 2018. First, I am practicing generating story ideas. Second I am learning to write what my imagination comes up with scene wise to go with whatever story idea I decide to use.
Not only is the fiction lots of fun to write, my non-fiction/occult writing is getting energized by the exercises. I haven't gone into improving the quality of my writing as Greer suggested in response to a question I had last Sunday on this subject. That can come in due course.
No, what is happening is I now have a way to constrain my thoughts so I can actually write! A path lies before me to manifest the invisible into the visible or at least written word!
You see, I have had this problem for about forever of getting ideas organized well enough to write them down. Formal guidelines for structuring various kinds of writing were not helping. Structure while probably helpful what was holding me back. Not yet anyway.
Taking this vast boundless stream or field of ideas and picking something to organize was turning out to be the challenge. So I shut myself down.
Until I figured out an unlock.
Scenes.
Starting with a scene which could be anyplace along a timeline for a story and letting the scene develop has made all the difference. I think what is key is a scene has a kind of frame around it or at least loose boundaries on the field of potential ideas, concepts and actions. The scene develops organically. I can write about what is happening in the scene and not worry about everything else it is hooked to either sequentially or conceptually.
This approach might have potential for occult writing as well. At the very least once the flood of ideas and thoughts is out I can structure the soup. Right now I feel like I am channeling a hot mess of ideas. They pop into my imagination in a manner which seems to make sense. Not necessarily after they get put to paper/screen.
Now, do I publish them to my blog?
I am following a series on writing by
ecosophia from 2018. First, I am practicing generating story ideas. Second I am learning to write what my imagination comes up with scene wise to go with whatever story idea I decide to use.Not only is the fiction lots of fun to write, my non-fiction/occult writing is getting energized by the exercises. I haven't gone into improving the quality of my writing as Greer suggested in response to a question I had last Sunday on this subject. That can come in due course.
No, what is happening is I now have a way to constrain my thoughts so I can actually write! A path lies before me to manifest the invisible into the visible or at least written word!
You see, I have had this problem for about forever of getting ideas organized well enough to write them down. Formal guidelines for structuring various kinds of writing were not helping. Structure while probably helpful what was holding me back. Not yet anyway.
Taking this vast boundless stream or field of ideas and picking something to organize was turning out to be the challenge. So I shut myself down.
Until I figured out an unlock.
Scenes.
Starting with a scene which could be anyplace along a timeline for a story and letting the scene develop has made all the difference. I think what is key is a scene has a kind of frame around it or at least loose boundaries on the field of potential ideas, concepts and actions. The scene develops organically. I can write about what is happening in the scene and not worry about everything else it is hooked to either sequentially or conceptually.
This approach might have potential for occult writing as well. At the very least once the flood of ideas and thoughts is out I can structure the soup. Right now I feel like I am channeling a hot mess of ideas. They pop into my imagination in a manner which seems to make sense. Not necessarily after they get put to paper/screen.
Now, do I publish them to my blog?
