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Kokalophobia: The fear of shoehorns

I haven’t written this much for years.  And it brings to mind the fact I love writing.  My mind has been in different worlds and down intersecting plot lines for the past few weeks.  I haven’t written any down yet.  I think it’s a subconscious (now semi-conscious) fear preventing me.

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.shoehorn

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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