It’s not a fear of the act of writing. Nor a fear of writing something bad. What I believe is, I have a fear losing these worlds I am creating. I fear shoehorning them into an unfitting medium.
I’ll walk you through that thought pattern. Let’s say I create a vast world with a layered plot. The first question to myself is, which medium does this story belong? Usually they are quite visual, my first instinct is then phil·em. But they are also layered. A novel seems more appropriate. Again I have to remind my self of the visual factor. A graphic novel perhaps. They can be both visual and deep. But then I recall I cannot draw.
A television series. That medium is visual and can get deep into a complex plot. Reality – I cannot actually get on television. I could get on the web though. Web series are just coming into their own. But then I have to get the whole web thing going to see it through. This was supposed to be about writing not bringing my work home.
Then I usually spiral deeper, back and forth through the different mediums. I will even toss a series of short stories into the mix at some point. I do not want to define these ideas by the way I tell them. I want them to have the ability to be bigger than the medium they are communicated in. So, I tend not to write any of them. Or at least I tended to not write any.
This blogging has given focus to that medium question. So I write. And it has given me a tool to face the fear. Narrow the medium first then get the idea. Seems simple in retrospect. My mind might not be built to see simple, only shoehorns.
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