16th April 2017 | for Creatives | structured writing & plotting/outlining, intuitive writing & pantsing, pantsing vs. plotting, writing, storytelling, Stephen King, Kelly Marcel |
"No one could say that [Stephen King's] work is short of storytelling, but he plots very little."
"You're much closer to the dreaming side of your mind when you write. Dream, dream, dream it through. Write more with your body and less with your head. Don't think a story through, don't think it out. The danger of thinking it through is that most of us are not smart enough to do it that way. We have to go one moment at a time."
"Most writers will create an outline and start pounding out a draft. But Klinkenborg does neither. Outlines, he says, are not only a waste of time, but they also harm our writing. How, he wonders, can we presume to know what we're going to write before we write it?"
"Listen to the story being told. Come up with the idea, but let it play out naturally. Try not to shape it word for word or be so married to an outline that you deny what could become something amazing."
"There are broadly two ways to approach any piece of writing, in my opinion. One is where you have an idea of where the whole thing is heading ... The other is where you have a phrase, an image, maybe a single line that fascinates you and provokes you into elaborating it."
"I don't plot anything out. I don't have an outline, for better or for worse. I've tried, but I feel that kind of hems me in."
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