I've never tried writing a book but can certainly relate to issues of conflict. I simply avoid it, usually at all costs. As I'm sure you're aware, avoiding conflict can be damaging and result in being the Loner that damn online quiz accuses me of.:) I can't remember all the crap I've eaten rather than have conflict or a flip side, is how I will go miles out of my way to avoid hurting someone.
Well, this is a rather negative comment for the Nativity Season. I apologize.
I hope you find some peace in this season of hope and have a blessed New Year.
I think it may be because you see too many options. At least this can be the root of it for me.
When you feel inundated with various routes you can take, it is sometimes hard to choose, and can lead to lack of completion or not even getting started.
The key for me is to try to home in on what is going on around me. Usually circumstance or the context of your life makes one decision easier, and more likely to have the best reward. In the instance of character writing, you may just want to ask yourself what would be the biggest payoff for the reader.
You don't necessarily have to resolve conflict between two people in a novel, or have the resolution be material. Sometimes it is that the character comes to some kind of inner resolution through the acceptance that the conflict remains. Sometimes the conflict isn't resolved on any level accept for the lesson it teaches the reader.
George this is amazing. Thank you!!!! I will post a reply at your myspace so you read this for sure. I have some questions to ask you about all this. (As soon as I can get out of the shell I'm in...and can communicate) For me it's more like I don't have *any* ideas on how to resolve it except through means that I don't understand myself. But the idea that I don't have to solve the problem...that I can let the reader chew on it...is kind of amazing in a way. That it can be stated and just say...y'know...i want this to be different, but it's not and i'm not. wow. some of it i'm not sure i understand...but i'm going to chew on it.
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December 26 2006, 20:45:50 UTC
My whole life has been writing, and most people would poop their pants if they actually saw the accumulation with their own eyes.
I don't want that to carry the connotation that I think I am an expert. I'm not making money at it, that's for sure. I do like to think that it has to do more with circumstance than lack of talent though. I am just an enthusiastic learner who has spent a lot of time thinking about the subject.
It is truth that gives insight and sometimes there is truth in a lack of resolution. It isn't a resolution that resolves, it is truth that resolves.... I know I am getting very confusing here. It is hard to explain.
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Well, this is a rather negative comment for the Nativity Season.
I apologize.
I hope you find some peace in this season of hope and have a blessed New Year.
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altho i do tend to hurt people...a lot :-) sometimes just when i'm Avoiding stuff. it's funny how that works.
i do hope your Christmas is delicious too!!! :-)
well at least i am facing my book again and that is good.
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When you feel inundated with various routes you can take, it is sometimes hard to choose, and can lead to lack of completion or not even getting started.
The key for me is to try to home in on what is going on around me. Usually circumstance or the context of your life makes one decision easier, and more likely to have the best reward. In the instance of character writing, you may just want to ask yourself what would be the biggest payoff for the reader.
You don't necessarily have to resolve conflict between two people in a novel, or have the resolution be material. Sometimes it is that the character comes to some kind of inner resolution through the acceptance that the conflict remains. Sometimes the conflict isn't resolved on any level accept for the lesson it teaches the reader.
Just some thoughts....
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I don't want that to carry the connotation that I think I am an expert. I'm not making money at it, that's for sure. I do like to think that it has to do more with circumstance than lack of talent though. I am just an enthusiastic learner who has spent a lot of time thinking about the subject.
It is truth that gives insight and sometimes there is truth in a lack of resolution. It isn't a resolution that resolves, it is truth that resolves.... I know I am getting very confusing here. It is hard to explain.
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