Comments on: Openings http://storytellersunplugged.com/gerardhouarner/2010/01/04/openings/ Where Words and Imagination Meet Sun, 13 May 2012 01:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Thomas Sullivan http://storytellersunplugged.com/gerardhouarner/2010/01/04/openings/comment-page-1/#comment-745 Thomas Sullivan Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:17:13 +0000 http://6.2015#comment-745 Semntics gone wild! Mercy, but you've opened my eyes to how we each pick our labels and use them like prisms through which to see and interpret the light we invent. And yeah, the logic holds up as long as you define the terms you are using. Almost all elements are "openings," as you describe them. Only thing I can't really empathize with is how you find the middle part of a story to be the most difficult. That's always the easiest for me, though I can fail miserably at it. If I know where I am, and where I'm going, the route by which I get there is implicit with choice as well as being amendable. But back to my point: thanks for the semantic model, which says as much to me about being a writer as about writing itself. Hmmm. Now that's a semantic fandango... -- Sully Semntics gone wild! Mercy, but you’ve opened my eyes to how we each pick our labels and use them like prisms through which to see and interpret the light we invent. And yeah, the logic holds up as long as you define the terms you are using. Almost all elements are “openings,” as you describe them. Only thing I can’t really empathize with is how you find the middle part of a story to be the most difficult. That’s always the easiest for me, though I can fail miserably at it. If I know where I am, and where I’m going, the route by which I get there is implicit with choice as well as being amendable. But back to my point: thanks for the semantic model, which says as much to me about being a writer as about writing itself. Hmmm. Now that’s a semantic fandango…

– Sully

]]> By: David Niall Wilson http://storytellersunplugged.com/gerardhouarner/2010/01/04/openings/comment-page-1/#comment-743 David Niall Wilson Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:03:14 +0000 http://6.2015#comment-743 Sounds sort of like plotting by Donnie Darko, but I get your meaning...and more often than not, once I'm in the middle of writing something, I find that it seems the words were already there...waiting for me to detach them from one reality and insert them into another...the stories - the good ones - feel like memories. It sort of reminds me of the title of one of our own Steven Savile's stories... "Remember Me Yesterday"... D Sounds sort of like plotting by Donnie Darko, but I get your meaning…and more often than not, once I’m in the middle of writing something, I find that it seems the words were already there…waiting for me to detach them from one reality and insert them into another…the stories – the good ones – feel like memories.

It sort of reminds me of the title of one of our own Steven Savile’s stories… “Remember Me Yesterday”…

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