Arguing with Characters
MC: Hey! You didn’t have to kill my horse!
Author: I’m sorry, but it is crucial to the next three scenes that you be on foot.
MC: Well, you could have sent him away.
Author: He’s far too loyal to leave you.
MC: Oh. Yeah, you’re right (gazes into the distance). Blazes, woman, couldn’t you have killed him after [...]
Duality was Bad Enough…
Creative: Write this!
Writer: Hmmmm okay.
Critic: You can’t write about that!
Writer: I can’t?
Critic: NO! That’s not your genre, you’ll mess it up . Besides, it is controversial.
Creative: Oh leave her be. It will be great, you’ll see.
Writer: Hush, I’m writing.
Critic: Well stop. Write something different.
Creative: Oh hush you stick in the mud. You suppress me (dramatic [...]
Another Duality Discussion
For those of you new to the blog, this is my third post on the duality of a writer’s mind. If you smile or totally get it, read the first and second duality posts as well.
The left brain is in regular font. The right brain (or writing mind) is in italics.
Image courtesy foxtongue.
You are [...]
Another Dose of Writer Duality
(For those of you viewing duality posts for the first time, feel free to read the first duality entry. Essentially, writers are two-minded. This writer is no exception. From time to time, this inner dialog reaches the blog page because, somewhere out there, someone else is having the same sort of internal discussion. Italics represents [...]
Duality…the Writer’s Mind
Every writer becomes accustomed to “having two minds.” Life, for a writer, is like this…
Get up. Time to write.
Mfphhhh
C’mon you made a commitment
I’m sleeping leemeelone
You committed. You want to write. You know you do.
Later. I want to write later.
You need to write now.
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