getting them to do what you want.

i have what i like to call "ah ha" moments. these are when i come up with a narrative solution. it can be something as mundane as a character name or a major plot change. i always get goose bumps whenever i get or at least think i've gotten a winner–it's sort of like sticking your hand down the garbage disposal and finding the source of the problem that made the disposal sound like you were grinding up human remains–omg, did i just write that, well, you all know what i mean. sometimes, though, there is dissention in my creative world. i have the "ah ha" moment and the world i created starts in like the mad hatter's tea party with the "i don't think so," and the "you're not getting me to do that," neck swiggle and finger point, and the "you've got to be effing kidding me," lean back in the chair, boots on table with smirk posture. i find these moments rather disconcerting. i made you up and you have to do what i say. i mean it's my world, you're my people, and this is my situation…and sundry other whiney comments that are met with disdainful stares of "who the hell do you think you are?" i sit back in my chair and ponder–did i make them up or am i a figment of their imaginations? i was still giving this a good think (this is a lexicon specific to winnie the pooh bears who live down south) when another writer friend of mine brought up the point that she often had the same problem. okay, so now i know i am real–or i am pretty damn sure and those little snots at the tea party were just yanking my chain and letting me know that my eureka moment wasn't really that–it was a carbolic gas bubble i mistook for brilliance. i went back hat in hand and we had a conference call and discussed what should happen next using the joint venture approach of creative cooperation and not authorial totalitarianism and i want you all to know that although i am partial to black i do not have a riding crop.



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Published on April 25, 2011 09:17
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