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THE FIRE BRINGERS

Blog City Prompt: “The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
What do you think about this quote? Do you keep a blazing fire when it comes to your writing?

The concept of ‘everything thrown into it’ is part of the early creative process and the idea of Brain Storming as a technique. Once a direction and plan is determined, the creativity focuses in and a lot of not usable stuff is thrown out.

To be more specific, I use visual diagrams--that would be the fire.

I surround the central event or character with every element, other characters, anything and everything that could be within their POV or ultimately have an effect--that would be the fuel.

Then I guess that I stare into the fire looking for connections, influences, logical choices, dangers, conflicts--anything to shape the moment in the story. When it begins to make sense, the fire burns very bright.

After that exercise, I know everything that exists for that moment and I can create a sequence and write it down. The characters almost write themselves, and sometimes they say and do the most surprising things.

The entire process of story-telling in a novel is strange and wonderful. I don’t think a hard formula can be applied. Working in theater and film helped me learn about timing and visualization.

The mind is a visual machine...way beyond language.

Write on you fire bringers! >>>iggy

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