Good morning!
It's getting pretty late here but I'm up reading about improving my writing skill. I'm not sure if I'm a bad writer. I believe it's the fact that I'm not sure how to get my ideas out. There's so many I find it a challenge to stick with one and keep working at it.
However, I would like to share stories. I'm not sure if it'll be with the world, but I would like to write. I think when I imagine that I'll share it with the world I hold back. So maybe if I write everything first without the thought that I'll be sharing it, I feel it will be original.
For example, one story I'm working on is about a guy who places the souls of people into a new world he created by making a pact with a dark being.
I like stories with symbolism. For example, the sun is shining and the character is holding a glass and they come to realization. The room grows darker and darker and it begins to ran. The glass falls to the ground and there is a close up on the glass, and in the reflection of the glass, we see the character running out the door into the rain. Without much saying, my deep feeling would be an impact of where the person's mind and heart shatters and left behind. It's a realization they don't want to face, but it's unavoidable.
I'm not sure if that makes sense but trying to get this image out is a tougher than it seems. Because I'm into illustration and drawing, I would sit and sit just scribbling and getting frustrated because I just can't get what I'm trying to get out. They say "think about angles, lightening etc." <----teachers say this. And I wonder "how can I enjoy this if there's all these rules!" and I'm guessing it becomes second nature overtime. It's something to consider, not to overgeneralize I guess.
I think some of my good work are ones were I just let it flow. And I think this is how it's suppose to be. It's the same with painting. When I took a painting class in high school I remember the teacher kept telling us not to get to rigid and just allow ourselves to freely paint. I started off very stiff and just precise and I guess it showed. She said I was focusing to much on trying to get it perfect.
Story writing is like art. It should flow freely. Then we can go over and improve on it. I think writing is like the subconscious (or art is general). When we trying to over think, we tend to lose the meaning (the original impress) that was there to begin with.
It's kind of like recalling a dream. I once read that we would tend to try to add details we feel would make the dream better rather than relaying what we dreamt. I guess this is a conscious thing; to make things more elaborate, interesting.
Maybe I should just stop over thinking and just write. Rather than wondering if people will like it or not. Those were the days. I found that when I realized people like what I write, I'll start writing what I think would be best to write rather than what I was planning to write.
Well, in the end I guess it's best to just write and see. Hayao Miyazaki does this. He said he doesn't try to impress anyone. I think I should try to follow that!
Well, I'm gonna read some more and head in.
Night
Mon
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