STORYSPACE: Learning to Think in Links
Very interesting things are happening, I can see them. it’s a matter now of learning how to put into words what change in thinking comes along, and what to write down when the mind wanders. On the one hand I can see how a story builds itself by throwing out possibilities and making the characters own up (if past) or face up (if future) to the challenges. On the other, I see the need to follow a character’s traits and tendencies so that he will act in character, even when he doesn’t (what drove him beyond? to take chances? to risk it?).
Now I’m a wanderer, true, but I’m also the conflicted by my near-anal tendency to focus. Being a Scorpio and not believing in astrology yet fitting the hot/cold temperament near perfectly, I believe that what needs to be done here is to go ahead and scatter, and focus on it. Or, the opposite can apply: focus on scattering.
Neat, huh?
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