Fiction Writing: The Passionate Journey. Blog of Writing Coach, Emily Hanlon

Fiction Writing Is Not a Linear Process

Why Fiction Writing Doesn't Always Need to Make Sense to the Writer, Quote Albert Einstein

Creativity is a subtle and magnificent dance between the rational and the intuitive, between the left and right parts of the brains, between technique and imagination.

Both partners in this dance are absolutely necessary and are needed in equal proportion, which means that imagination is not more important than technique and visa versa. If you only live in the imagination, you will never get organized, you will never complete your story. However, if you start from the rational, linear, organizational part of the process, ( ie. Gotta have the perfect opening sentence and first paragraph… better yet, an outline…) you will never fall into the rich, passionate cosmic landscape of the imagination where anything is possible.

The main problem I see...

Write from What You Know? A Different Approach...

People say to write what you know. That's not what fiction writing is about!

Writing from the creative unconscious.
When we write from the imagination we are writing what we “know” but from such a deep level of knowing that we don’t know that we know it until it is revealed in our writing.

This is often the truer aspect of self, the part that we do not readily show to the world, and sometimes do not show even to our self – at least not consciously.

This is what makes the journey such risky business.
This is also the great joy of writing; when we are true to the process, we discover worlds within we did not know existed.

Ready to take the risk of being the writer you dream of being? Contact Emily to talk about how her coaching can support your journey. 914.962.4432