rada
03-16-2004, 11:58 PM
Hello teachers,
Please, correct the following :
When I consider my lack of imagination, I can not help admiring and (I should be ashamed to confess it) envying those who have a gift for making up tales and stories.
Many times, I tried, just for the fun, to imagine a story; the shortest in the literature history, and many times, helpless and gnawing my nails, I stayed gazing at the blank paper.
It is said that the first step is the most difficult. And the first step in writing a story is, of course, settling the characters.
One should suggest to supply to a poorness like mine by groping in one's memories in search for persons he had known and who had left him with a deep impression, whether good or bad. Such persons could inspire typical features at least for the main characters of the story.
Though many, if not all, writers declare getting inspiration from the real world, I do not think it an easy thing to extract features from live persons. To me, such a process requires more than bare observation and a strong memory. It needs pure creativity !
Now let us assume that I have successfully conducted the first step. Remains the story itself, this train of events which makes the characters interacting coherently with their tempers already defined in the previous step.
At this stage too, I should admit my utter inaptitude in weaving the strands of a fictive story, even an ordinary one.
How lucky must be fictitious writers. Not only are they creative, but they have mere genius !
By way of solace, I tell to myself :"What is the need for imagination when the real world is more unexpectable than could make the most creative writers."
Although, till today, I fail to imagine anything that is not real, it is not for lack of trying !
Gratefully,
Rada.
Please, correct the following :
When I consider my lack of imagination, I can not help admiring and (I should be ashamed to confess it) envying those who have a gift for making up tales and stories.
Many times, I tried, just for the fun, to imagine a story; the shortest in the literature history, and many times, helpless and gnawing my nails, I stayed gazing at the blank paper.
It is said that the first step is the most difficult. And the first step in writing a story is, of course, settling the characters.
One should suggest to supply to a poorness like mine by groping in one's memories in search for persons he had known and who had left him with a deep impression, whether good or bad. Such persons could inspire typical features at least for the main characters of the story.
Though many, if not all, writers declare getting inspiration from the real world, I do not think it an easy thing to extract features from live persons. To me, such a process requires more than bare observation and a strong memory. It needs pure creativity !
Now let us assume that I have successfully conducted the first step. Remains the story itself, this train of events which makes the characters interacting coherently with their tempers already defined in the previous step.
At this stage too, I should admit my utter inaptitude in weaving the strands of a fictive story, even an ordinary one.
How lucky must be fictitious writers. Not only are they creative, but they have mere genius !
By way of solace, I tell to myself :"What is the need for imagination when the real world is more unexpectable than could make the most creative writers."
Although, till today, I fail to imagine anything that is not real, it is not for lack of trying !
Gratefully,
Rada.