Uploaded on Mar 21, 2022
For instance, maybe there was another character in your story who was supposed to be your romantic interest, but he got killed off by the guy with the knife before anything interesting happened. Our first instinct is to say: bad luck! Let's just bring him back to life and keep going as if nothing had happened.
Creative Reality
Creative
Reality
Well, I had a thought about this. The
fundamental problem is that people want a
creative reality, not a real reality. They want it
to be creative like a novel or a movie, with
interesting plots and dialog, and also creative
like when you doodle something and make it
up as you go along.
I'm afraid you're going to have to settle for
just one of those. You can have an
interesting, made-up reality, or you can
have a real one.
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But if you want the story to be true,
you can't make it up while you're
writing it.
For instance, maybe there was another
character in your story who was
supposed to be your romantic interest,
but he got killed off by the guy with the
knife before anything interesting
happened.
Our first instinct is to say: bad luck! Let's
just bring him back to life and keep
going as if nothing had happened.
But if we do that, the story won't be
about how things really are; it will be
about how we wish things were.
The most dangerous thought you can
have as a creative person is to think
you know what you're doing. It makes
you inflexible, hides the holes in your
reasoning, and makes it harder to
improve your technique.
The most valuable thing you can have as a
creative person is a beginner's mind.
Beginners are free of mental habits. They
approach things with wonder and delight, as
though they were brand new every time they
saw them. Which, of course, they are; we just
get used to them too fast.
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