More about Nick
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elionwyrI want to get this down, before I forget it..
Last night, Nick talked about duende as a creative force, a way of approaching writing. Duende was a way of tapping into a primal force, letting it come up through you, over you, out of you, into your work. Which is a much nicer way of describing the writing process than my own demon-image.
He also explained that he never has suffered from writer's block - perhaps, in part, because he works very much as an artist. His studio is set up in a circle, he described, with a computer for the text he writes in one section; the middle of the room, set up for his collage art; other areas are ready for his drawings and paintings. When he gets stuck with one thing, he goes on to the next; he said that even if he wasn't sure about the whole storyline, he was reasonably sure what image or thought came next, and that was how he would work.
He writes from the middle, from duende.
He also talked about writing from a Gestalt psychology point of view, where you take an issue (story) and divide yourself about it. You talk about it completely from one point of view until that discussion is done; then you cross to the opposite side and discuss the other point of view until that bit is done. In this way, you answer your own question. And he finds it applies to writing very well, as well.
Something else I found interesting:
In the Griffin & Sabine books, Nick handwrites various letters and postcards, using a different handwriting style for each character. His new trilogy introduces 2 new characters, so he's up to 4 styles of writing. He explained that while Sabine's handwriting is closest to his own, he has found that he can only really work on one character a day, because of the effort of writing in those styles.
Just..interesting.
Last night, Nick talked about duende as a creative force, a way of approaching writing. Duende was a way of tapping into a primal force, letting it come up through you, over you, out of you, into your work. Which is a much nicer way of describing the writing process than my own demon-image.
He also explained that he never has suffered from writer's block - perhaps, in part, because he works very much as an artist. His studio is set up in a circle, he described, with a computer for the text he writes in one section; the middle of the room, set up for his collage art; other areas are ready for his drawings and paintings. When he gets stuck with one thing, he goes on to the next; he said that even if he wasn't sure about the whole storyline, he was reasonably sure what image or thought came next, and that was how he would work.
He writes from the middle, from duende.
He also talked about writing from a Gestalt psychology point of view, where you take an issue (story) and divide yourself about it. You talk about it completely from one point of view until that discussion is done; then you cross to the opposite side and discuss the other point of view until that bit is done. In this way, you answer your own question. And he finds it applies to writing very well, as well.
Something else I found interesting:
In the Griffin & Sabine books, Nick handwrites various letters and postcards, using a different handwriting style for each character. His new trilogy introduces 2 new characters, so he's up to 4 styles of writing. He explained that while Sabine's handwriting is closest to his own, he has found that he can only really work on one character a day, because of the effort of writing in those styles.
Just..interesting.
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Date: 2002-02-07 06:08 am (UTC)