George, I am so relieved you and your family are safe.
Questioner: Once, or maybe twice, George has said, ask your story what it has left to tell you, or words to that effect. Recently, I've recognized that after a year, I am usually very fond of the characters in a story, even the villains, and I have asked two of them, what more or what…
George, I am so relieved you and your family are safe.
Questioner: Once, or maybe twice, George has said, ask your story what it has left to tell you, or words to that effect. Recently, I've recognized that after a year, I am usually very fond of the characters in a story, even the villains, and I have asked two of them, what more or what different thing do you want. And twice I've found they've felt boxed in by a "literary," almost poetic ending that I was fond of. But I love these guys. So out the endings went - and I was shocked at the psychological depth I got in a giving them another ending. Good-bye poetry, hello meaningful addition, or subtraction, or multiplication, division. I got to know those people so much better. One story is done. The other is not quite yet . . .
I love all my people, too, and want to do right by them. Thanks for saying all this. I'll remember when I tie things up with a pretty bow, mayb all I'm doing is twisting some ribbon, not telling a story. Unless the story is about a professional gift wrapper.
George, I am so relieved you and your family are safe.
Questioner: Once, or maybe twice, George has said, ask your story what it has left to tell you, or words to that effect. Recently, I've recognized that after a year, I am usually very fond of the characters in a story, even the villains, and I have asked two of them, what more or what different thing do you want. And twice I've found they've felt boxed in by a "literary," almost poetic ending that I was fond of. But I love these guys. So out the endings went - and I was shocked at the psychological depth I got in a giving them another ending. Good-bye poetry, hello meaningful addition, or subtraction, or multiplication, division. I got to know those people so much better. One story is done. The other is not quite yet . . .
I love all my people, too, and want to do right by them. Thanks for saying all this. I'll remember when I tie things up with a pretty bow, mayb all I'm doing is twisting some ribbon, not telling a story. Unless the story is about a professional gift wrapper.
ha ha! I usually start thinking, what do they want now. Might be different from what they wanted at the beginning.