Intuitive Writing

A podcast from The Creative Penn podcast, here’s the transcript: Intuitive Discovery Writing

There’s a bit of an emphasis on serial fiction, but then this:

What is discovery writing? How does it differ from plotting or outlining?

I find discovery writing, in a more positive description, is that you’re leaning into your curiosity. So you’re not deciding ahead of time what happens to your character specifically. … So you get into it because you’re like, “I want to know what happens next!” So that same rush that a lot of people get when they’re reading a story is a foundational aspect of using discovery writing as a technique.

That’s one of the things I really push in my book is that discovery writing is a technique. It is a technique you use with outlining, using story beats, without any of those things. It’s a technique that you can hone and improve upon over time by practicing it. So that’s kind of the short version of what I think discovery writing is and how it can be useful to writers. …

And then there’s a good discussion about how different people are, which is always so fascinating to think about —

[I]n my head, I see that person in the cafe, and I see them falling into the crypt, and I can see the crypt. Like I could physically describe that for you because I am a very visual person. How is that for you? I feel like I hear from some people they hear voices, so they hear dialogue. I never, ever, ever hear dialogue. 

Good podcast; I don’t listen to a lot from The Creative Penn because this podcast is fairly strongly marketing-focused and growing your business and so forth, and that’s not what I want to do with my time right now. [Who knows if ever?] But I do try to remember to take a look at recent podcasts now and then.

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