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Mariah Friend's avatar

Thank you for sharing a behind-the-scenes peek at your writing process and allowing ideas to take on more form with time. I love those little synchronicities when they happen!

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Ian Gouge's avatar

Thanks Mariah

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erniet's avatar

I'm by no means anything but a rank amateur, but I was struck by something Jerry Seinfeld said in a recent interview with Bari Weiss...he said (paraphrasing) that writing comedy is like poetry; you spend a lot more time thinking about it than actually writing it down. I find that to be true for creative writing; it's not like at work where I wrote sometimes hundreds of pages a day of technical documents and could pretty much churn out what was needed on demand. Now that I'm trying to write creatively I might spend a month thinking about something before I even begin to set pen to paper. Again, I'm just an amateur but is that what you're getting at? That ideas need to sort of jostle around until they're ready to come out?

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Ian Gouge's avatar

Sometimes I think that's how it works - possibly as in this case. But only sometimes. It's VITAL that we keep writing in between those rare moments, partly because good things can come from that too. Just waiting for 'the moment' can be a death knell, a step to not writing at all. We HAVE to keep practicing our craft, trying things out, striving to get better - so that we're ready if lightning strikes... Rarely does a day go by when I haven't written something.

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erniet's avatar

I get that too...it's like in music; the old saying is "If you miss a day of practice, you notice. If you miss two days, your band notices. If you miss three days, the audience notices."

Gotta have the fundamental technical skill before you can get creative. I can see that.

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