Comments on: First, you need an idea http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2009/10/24/first-you-need-an-idea/ Where Words and Imagination Meet Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:33:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2009/10/24/first-you-need-an-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Thomas Sullivan Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:03:16 +0000 http://storytellersunplugged.com/?p=333#comment-74 Very few advice columns about writing really bridge the gap between mechanical exercises and that quantum realm of imagination, but this one is the exception. Simple yet insightful, you carry the nuts and bolts about as far into the Muse's territory as they can go, Alexandra. Thanks for that. My own novels and short stories have often sprung from just such lists. And while said lists sometimes drift into coherency, more often it's their very disjointedness that stirs possibilities for me. I mean what can you do with a fragmentary line delivered anonymously in mid-sleep: "Bonbons for Jesus"? I call that list my "Anecdotals." -- Sully Very few advice columns about writing really bridge the gap between mechanical exercises and that quantum realm of imagination, but this one is the exception. Simple yet insightful, you carry the nuts and bolts about as far into the Muse’s territory as they can go, Alexandra. Thanks for that. My own novels and short stories have often sprung from just such lists. And while said lists sometimes drift into coherency, more often it’s their very disjointedness that stirs possibilities for me. I mean what can you do with a fragmentary line delivered anonymously in mid-sleep: “Bonbons for Jesus”? I call that list my “Anecdotals.”

– Sully

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