Unveiling The Spirit of the Spec: What Lies Beneath the Surface Will Shock You
And frankly that’s one of the most damnable aspects of the writing process: Knowing just what to pluck out of that universe to put into our story. To my knowledge, there is only one way to determine that, summed up wonderfully by my then three year-old son when asked his advice about writing: “Go into the story, and find the animals.”
We come up with an idea and test to see if it has merit.
We act on our idea by getting curious and following the path on our journey of discovery.
Then we write our story by going into it [immersing ourselves in that place and with those characters] and finding the animals [everything of substance that prowls there — moments, scenes, dialogue, images, feelings, and so on].
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