Dear folks, it’s getting current again that literature is not math. So, let’s try to explain today what’s all about it. First of all, writers can be inspired from lots of things. As I’ve been discussing at my latest interview in The Independent Authors Network, one practical way to get solid foundations with language, in the sense of fantastic, is to receive stimuli and create chains of words within seconds that help us create thoughts, decisions and material. This can also happen at the audio-visual sphere. Nevertheless, the special torture instrument of this statement lies on exemplification. You may still not understand everything related with the creative writing process, but at the rest of it you’re in… Or better say, not exactly, projects that don’t deal with an artist’s journey presenting the commercial cinema and Hollywood shift from artistic foundations to multi-faceted expertise. An example that has dominated my thoughts both creatively and artistically is how many different things can be rotated around a simple project, movie, song, award, love affair, whether we’re talking about Gaga and A Star Is Born, launching a product in the internet, etc. Spinning messages in a multi-layered web of actions, can do lots of creative work. But let’s just get that last thing and all about creative decisions analytically.
The artistic cover of the hardcover of Alice in Wonderland, describes a dialogue of her with the cat, at what we Greeks say the ear of the book: “But I don’t want to get baffled with lunatics” said Alice. “Uh oh, but you can’t avoid that” said the cat. “We’re all lunatics here”. One of the problems of solid writing is when your intellectual child gets full of messages and no theme at all. The best way to battle it is getting past coincidences, non-linear time and unstable realities and rather more chaotic writing, that is what Robert McKee names anti-plot! Getting more familiar with structure, plot and characters lays the reality that example is leadership. Writers who got past biographical writing and perhaps Osama Bin Laden as well, have been entangled to the inexhaustible reality of myths. Can a myth be more than a type of story if compared to fantasy that contradicts reality? Of course it can! It’s all about being real with being similar. What’s the difference? Bearing in mind that art is always a reflection, a mirror of our culture, differences are underlined by a specific spacetime, with specific meanings, with specific characters, at a specific time frame, where the process of personalizing the messages of the writer is a whole different reality. It can be something totally irrelevant. The before and after of creative decisions deals first of all with getting pieces of art right and then passing through the small form towards the big form!
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