[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: How do you write?

[Jamieson Wolf Villeneuve]

Greetings and Salutations!

Amy Z wrote:

>
> My favorite part of writing is the brainstorming, which I almost
> always do longhand and is less writing than it is diagramming.  I
> scribble ideas and put arrows to connected ideas, examples, etc.  Once
>
> I have about a page full of these scribblings, some kind of shape has
> emerged and I can write a more or less logical essay from them.

During this past week and a bit, writing has been an outlet for me. My
parents are divorcing after twenty years, and I don't think they've
stopped to consider how this affects me. My mother has left my step dad
for another guy and they're now living in a trailer park. ::shudder:: My
mother didn't expect me to keep a relationship with my step dad, but I
am; so essentially I'm stuck in the middle.

So, in my less than normal emotional state, I've turned to reading a lot
of fantasy stuff to escape (The Worlds of Chrestomanci and anything by
Anne Bishop or Tanya Huff) and writing.

I've always just sort of written. Write the first thing that comes out
of my head, and go with it. That way, I'm writing from the heart, and
being true to myself. I write a lot of poetry, just letting my pen flow.
More often than not it's pretty dark and gloomy or else it's very sexual
or graphic. I just find that by writing what comes first, I get the icky
stuff out of the way.

However, I've now started writing "real life stories". This is something
I've never attempted before, mostly because I couldn't will myself to
care about the characters for a long period of time. I've been writing
fantasy for so long, it just felt wierd writing about "real" people.

But it's been helping because I'm confronting feeling that I would
otherwise have thrown deep into the wishing well of emotion.

It's been very theraputic.

This has been rather long, so I'll sign off now, and leave you all with
food for thought.

Hugs
Jamieson

--

"Many that live deserve death.
And some that die deserve life.
Can you give it to them? Then
do not be too eager to deal out death
in judgement." - Gandalf (The Fellowship
of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien)

--

Transported to a surreal landscape,
a young girl kills the first woman she
meets and thenteams up with three complete
strangers to kill again. - Marin County
newspaper's TV listing for
The Wizard of Oz

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