Massimo Marino's Blog: The Ramblings and the Rumblings - Posts Tagged "creative-process"

"Nothing good will come of merely filling in what you already know. You must trust the act of writing to scan all the passions and convictions in your mind, but these must defer to the fortuitousness of the work; they must be of it.

A book begins as an image, a sound in the ear, the haunting of something you don’t want to remember, or perhaps a great endowing anger. But it is not until you find a voice for whatever it is going on inside you that you can begin to make a coherent composition. The language you find precedes your intention or, if not, is sure to transform it." E.L. Doctorow

In my case everything started with characters. I had images, sounds, situations. In general, I have good memory for these things so I rarely had the urge to write them down. They kept haunting though. For quite some time. Then, one day, I "saw" people, and the images took up a different, more believable situation. I started to be a "witness" of events instead of receiving fragments of situations without the drama of a human being suffering through those.

The novel then started to appear on the screen. After months, it was already there. I only had to brush the keyboard to reveal the words...