Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Remember: you fail until you succeed. That’s how life is. Life is a game of inches — progress gained in sometimes agonizing increments. Sure, sometimes you make a big leap forward or slide a little backward, but fuck it, what else are you going to do?
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I am forever in search of tips and tricks to keep me walking the balance beam during the course of writing a big project, especially a novel. I forgot how daunting a process this is — and I say this after having completed it like, six other times now. You get halfway through and you start wondering: how did I get naked? Why am I wearing a cardboard box on my head? Is that an emu? Why is it so angry?
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I don’t know that I could identify my own voice, and I’m trying to ascertain the value in picking apart those things that identify my so-called voice. What characteristics go in there? (Profanity, I guess. Or, excuse me: profanity, motherfuckers.) On the one hand, I think it’d be interesting to pull it apart, see what elements comprise one’s voice for good or for ill. Maybe even allow some course correct.
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What I do know is that Inception has a lot to teach writers and storytellers. I don’t mean that the way the film was written or made has lessons, though that’s likely true — no, what I mean to suggest is that the nature of Inception’s story, and in particular the rules about dreams and dream architecture, can help inform the way you tell stories.
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Get on down in the comments. Things I’d love to hear from you, if you’re willing to share: favorite poems? Favorite poets? Poems you dislike? Forms you love, forms you don’t? Further, poetry is one of those forms you can find free on the Internet and in apps — for instance, the Poetry Foundation’s “Poetry Tool” (pretty cool, check it) also has a free iPhone app.
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