 Drama: July 20, 2011 Issue [#4510] |
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This week: Politics--everywhere--even in writing! Edited by: Fyn-elf  
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There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. ~Charles Peguy
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ~Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977 |
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Politics. I am not talking about presidents or congressmen or kings here. I am talking the office/workplace/neighborhood politics; the game-playing, the back-stabbing and the snarky Januses that seem to exist where ever we work and play. Unfortunately, they never seem to go away, and exist simply to make the lives of other people miserable.
Funny thing tho, it rarely, if ever, is encountered in our writing. While I am majorly NOT a fan of it in the real world, it IS a perfect mechanism for creating grief, drama and angst in our writing. What better way to introduce conflict in a story than using the day to day politics we all experience as a vehicle to tick off the guy, to reduce someone to tears or to explain a scenario? What better way to show the true character of your characters than by having them handle (or not!) the petty back-stabbing that goes on everywhere.
How does she handle the fellow worker-bee who tries her hardest to submarine everyone else? How does he handle the crocodile tears? How does she over come the witch at the next desk with the inappropriate temper? Does your character dissolve in tears when no one is looking? Does she go home and use her husband's broad shoulder as a sounding board?? Does she burn up the cyber-waves with vitreous texts? Does she blithely ignore it? Or is your character, perhaps, the one who is a pro at creating insidious scenarios meant to break even the strongest one on the floor?
Either way, politics can be a useful way to move a story forward, and at least, in our writing be good for something! |
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NickiD89  says: As someone who cooks as much as I write, I thoroughly enjoyed your anthologies in this newsletter. And you're so right! Proper timing and pacing are equally important in storytelling as they are in preparing and serving a multi-course meal. GREAT NL, Fyn!
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