Writing
The writer is not, then, an all-powerful architect of our reading experience. The writer guides the way we imagine but does not determine it. A film begins with a writer producing a screenplay. But it is the director who brings the screenplay to life, filling in most of the details. So it is with any story. A writer lays down words, but they are in
... See moreJonathan Gottschall • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Ed Sheeran and Neil Gaiman are in the top 0.000001% of their fields. They're among, say, 25 people in the world who repeatedly generate blockbusters.
If two world-class creators share the exact same creative process, I get curious. Also, while writing this, I found a video of John Mayer doing the same thing.
I call their approach the Creativity Fauce
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How YOU can change the world through WRITING with Alan Moore | Meet your Maestro | BBC Maestro
youtube.comThis is what storytellers do. They create moments of unexpected change that seize the attention of their protagonists and, by extension, their readers and viewers.
Will Storr • The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human, and How to Tell Them Better
Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity
Haruki Murakami • 4 highlights
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Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work. Reading is often seen as a passive act: we lie back and let writers pipe joy into our brains. But this is wrong. When we experience a story, our minds are churning, working hard.
Jonathan Gottschall • The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorthemergencemagazine.org