"When I'm writing I have only a general sense of where I'm going: a shape, or a kind of palpating absence waiting to be filled. I work by intuition, feeling my way through thickets and around walls, forever improvising." -James Sallis
Nice to know I'm in this kind of company with the way I write. But good god, what an awful way to do something and if I could do it any other way I would.
I wish I could work from outlines too. I find myself written into a corner because I don't. It must have something to do with the part of the brain we use to write. It doesn't like schedules. It demands spontaneity.
I think I'm in a Sallis kind of camp...I mean, I write for myself too, and I want to discover things as I go. It's sort of a dead reckoning feel for me.
hahaha! I'm glad I'm not the only guy to do so. I'm working on a longer project right now and its writing itself as much as I'm writing it. I'm relieved to see it's a part of the process.
"When I'm writing I have only a general sense of where I'm going: a shape, or a kind of palpating absence waiting to be filled. I work by intuition, feeling my way through thickets and around walls, forever improvising." -James Sallis
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Nice to know I'm in this kind of company with the way I write. But good god, what an awful way to do something and if I could do it any other way I would.
How's your process?
I wish I could work from outlines too. I find myself written into a corner because I don't. It must have something to do with the part of the brain we use to write. It doesn't like schedules. It demands spontaneity.
I think I'm in a Sallis kind of camp...I mean, I write for myself too, and I want to discover things as I go. It's sort of a dead reckoning feel for me.
hahaha! I'm glad I'm not the only guy to do so. I'm working on a longer project right now and its writing itself as much as I'm writing it. I'm relieved to see it's a part of the process.
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