WRITING: Plot

This is so hard; freeing the mind to go wherever it wants, and yet keeping control on the story. 

I’m writing differently than I’ve written before, and I’m writing differently too.  In the first case, hopefully improving the use of the elements of imagery and character and manipulation of language.  In the latter, whereas I used to just sit and go with the flow, wherever it led me, I am now planning the narrative structure and am constantly aware of the arc, the theme, the story.  Strange, because the way story came to me before seemed natural but ended up boring, and now, working to explore, go beyond is much harder because it needs some semblence of thought rather than pure inspiration and should, I would have thought, be just the opposite.

So no, I can’t seem to unleash and come up with something outside of me without a lot of hard thinking and work.