tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post8633877643980745330..comments2023-11-22T06:35:25.251-05:00Comments on POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS: Writing, Magic, and The Moment of TruthJulia Buckleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-41137038510292426352008-01-24T14:39:00.000-05:002008-01-24T14:39:00.000-05:00For what it's worth (probably not much), my storie...For what it's worth (probably not much), my stories always stream into my head from "somewhere else," and I don't make up the dialogue -- I hear the characters as they speak it. It seems (perhaps incorrectly) as though the story originates, and the characters exist, outside of me, and I've often wondered if they will live on after I die. That is, if they are alive at all :)<BR/><BR/>It's a gshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728098613576618648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-52589820134734081252008-01-22T08:01:00.000-05:002008-01-22T08:01:00.000-05:00Next day: I woke up this morning still thinking ab...Next day: I woke up this morning still thinking about this conversation. I realized I'd left out the name I'd give it in my "other hat" as a therapist: the conconscious. Maybe the characters that bubble out of us are akin to those we meet only in dreams.Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-13993336410511177382008-01-21T15:17:00.000-05:002008-01-21T15:17:00.000-05:00Julia, I think all "inspiration" is simply a perso...Julia, I think all "inspiration" is simply a personal reaction to life and the world around us. The more involved we are with the world, and the more we care about things outside ourselves, the more open we are to inspiration.Sandra Parshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17403144248962124138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-31267115256183057172008-01-21T14:42:00.000-05:002008-01-21T14:42:00.000-05:00Hahaha. I know what you mean, Sandra. Although I...Hahaha. I know what you mean, Sandra. Although I'm still not convinced there isn't an outside thing: you all write mysteries which require complex plotting. So where do the ideas and inspirations for those plots originate? Within our own minds, or somewhere in the ether, waiting for us to tap in?Julia Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-2017173094258773492008-01-21T14:05:00.000-05:002008-01-21T14:05:00.000-05:00I'm pretty much flailing from start to finish. The...I'm pretty much flailing from start to finish. The original concept alters drastically as I write. And it's amazing how much I will go back and change or rearrange after I thought the blasted thing was done to perfection. If there are authors out there for whom writing is a purely "magical" experience, I don't want to hear about them!Sandra Parshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17403144248962124138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-19913751886545861222008-01-21T11:04:00.000-05:002008-01-21T11:04:00.000-05:00How very interesting. Liz has a 9% higher magic q...How very interesting. Liz has a 9% higher magic quotient than does Darlene. :) And I assume Lonnie's "great idea" is a sort of magic. That was the very notion of the book: what is that great idea, and whence does it come? That's what interests me.<BR/><BR/>But I agree, Lonnie, that looking back over old stuff is more rewarding than trying to assess brand new stuff which, as Darlene pointed Julia Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-46583211859747916242008-01-21T10:41:00.000-05:002008-01-21T10:41:00.000-05:00Julia,Like you, I get a great idea to start writin...Julia,<BR/><BR/>Like you, I get a great idea to start writing, then the flailing begins. I do used index cards, cut in half, because a whole card is far to big to jot on and terrifies me. Hehehe. Right now I'm getting close to the saggy baggy middle of a book and it's like walking in a waist deep mud puddle. Whew. The fun part is going back to read what I've written and being surprised. Lonnie Crusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14617936690870869287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-23358841543375620692008-01-21T10:39:00.000-05:002008-01-21T10:39:00.000-05:00Julia, there is nothing magic about the way I writ...Julia, there is nothing magic about the way I write. In my case I think it's about 99% perspiration and maybe 1% inspiration. I get an idea. I play the what if game. I start writing the book. I decide it's dreck. I finish the book anyway. <BR/><BR/>I blame it on having to dig potatoes when I was a kid--the most back-breaking, tedious job I've ever had. Makes most other things seem easy.Sofie Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16830230500527705589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-81006416324981810522008-01-21T10:23:00.000-05:002008-01-21T10:23:00.000-05:00Julia, I've long thought that what you're calling ...Julia, I've long thought that what you're calling magic or the Holy Spirit is what writers used to call the Muse and what folks with a spiritual perspective mean when they say "I am just a channel." I forget who said creativity is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, but I think that's just about right. The 10% magic is what gets me started and the moments every writer lives for--but sheer Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.com