Creating a Text - Derec Jones

29th August 2007 with 0 Comments

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
I have created texts of all kinds and have published poetry, short stories and a novel. I have also written and produced stage plays and short films and completed television and film scripts. Despite this extensive experience, the creation of a text is still something of [...]

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Creating a Text - Elizabeth Baines

15th August 2007 with 1 Comment

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
A journalist just asked me the usual question: Where do I get my inspiration? Do I get it from the people I see in the street? Do I get it from the buildings in my neighbourhood? (She was a journalist on a local paper, wanting [...]

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About Writing:

You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back. Anne Lamott

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