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Building Blocks

8/30/2015

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I often marvel at the stars
and the places I can never be 
I can sit and dream, but tarry not,
lest I sink beneath the writer's sea

I often picture writing like sitting beneath a tree that is shedding its leaves during a windstorm. Every leaf is worthy of my attention, but their numbers all together are overwhelming. Thoughts and ideas circulate inside my head as a storm of words, pressing ever outward until I want to explode. The only antidote is to place these words on paper, hopefully in a comprehensive order, and do the best I can.

These words will soon become faces and places, events and settings by which a story can finally be told. These building blocks, as they spill forth, form into a large pile from which I can draw, stacking my little cubes in a room of white with no walls. As I build my story towers, I occasionally will find a block that does not fit.

Perhaps the block is flawed, or poorly made. This block will be recycled, tossed into the chipper and put through the process again. However, sometimes I find a block so unique that I simply can't bear to part with it. I stack this one off to the side. As time passes, I find another block that somehow fits with that odd block out, and before long, I am building a different tower.

The process repeats, my infinite room filling with various structures, entire worlds being created and abandoned as I move from tower to tower, discovering odd blocks that have no place or meaning. As the palace of my mind fills with such structures, it suddenly occurs to me that the odd blocks from before have built something that conveniently fits with those original building blocks, and entire worlds merge with one another. It could be as simple as a character merging with a story, or an entire world being consumed by a law of nature.

I find it interesting to create things with no known direction, only to discover that they fit together later. It is one of my favorite things to experience as an author.
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Matt
9/22/2015 01:36:15 pm

You are so cool!!!! =D

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J.R. Leckman
9/22/2015 04:59:34 pm

Thanks! I like to think I get to be cool at least some of the time.

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Walter Parsons link
12/19/2020 06:59:04 am

Greeat post

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