"For me there are no knock-out blows. There are only hundreds of light jabs. I have to find a way to leverage those jabs and build upon them until something that outwardly resembles a knock-out blow develops."
I have come to a place in my writing life where I strongly believe writing is a serious game of problem solving. By this, I mean every element and every choice within the play or other writing project must solve a specific set of problems -- not for the characters, necessarily, but certainly for the writer.
Some of those problems in a play, as an example, exist within the larger context of "theater" and others exist soley within the world of the play being written. I like to have my problems defined as early in the game as possible so that the researching and noodling and wandering and drifting are all focused, at least in my back brain.
This works for me because I was not blessed with divine inspiration. For me there are no knock-out blows. There are only hundreds of light jabs. I have to find a way to leverage those jabs and build upon them until something that outwardly resembles a knock-out blow develops.
The only way for me, then, to make a play is to put my head in a box to gather the jabs into a life energy for the play - like Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Accumulator ... without the tinfoil or the persecution.
Those jabs lead to choices and those choices, because they are new to me, push me deeper into untapped areas of my mind or pull me farther out into untapped areas of the world -- this push-pull hopefully takes everything else, including the final play, to a more interesting place.
Some of those problems in a play, as an example, exist within the larger context of "theater" and others exist soley within the world of the play being written. I like to have my problems defined as early in the game as possible so that the researching and noodling and wandering and drifting are all focused, at least in my back brain.
This works for me because I was not blessed with divine inspiration. For me there are no knock-out blows. There are only hundreds of light jabs. I have to find a way to leverage those jabs and build upon them until something that outwardly resembles a knock-out blow develops.
The only way for me, then, to make a play is to put my head in a box to gather the jabs into a life energy for the play - like Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Accumulator ... without the tinfoil or the persecution.
Those jabs lead to choices and those choices, because they are new to me, push me deeper into untapped areas of my mind or pull me farther out into untapped areas of the world -- this push-pull hopefully takes everything else, including the final play, to a more interesting place.