Post by account_disabled on Dec 14, 2023 5:49:18 GMT
The writer's dilemma between creative writing and Zen writing is a bit like the to be or not to be Hamlet's doubt. Creative writing presupposes a script to follow, a framework created ad hoc to evoke something or someone; by Zen writing I mean the one described in Natalie Goldberg's book " Zen Writing ", that is, the one that expresses oneself, but even more the one that "honors" the writing itself. In the book " Advice to a young writer ", the author Vincenzo Cerami guides the reader to discover a real language that allows you to create a fiction , distinguishing very different networks: fiction, cinema, theater and radio. We are particularly interested in the literary side, but in general a story - of any type - always presupposes a conflict . “ There is no dramaturgy without conflict ” writes Cerami.
And how can we blame him, given that every book or film that we savor every day contains a struggle for an objective, be it saving the Commando girl or finding the love of one's life, with a thousand obstacles Phone Number Data preventing the finalization. Once the type of language has been chosen - whether first or third person - we will have to tell, trying to excite and evoke, using techniques such as metonymy (a clue), the plot twist, the deus ex machina (an external intervention), previously prepared in the plot . We are talking about a basic architecture, about foundations on which to rest our pages. But is art , I wonder, planning? Or is it simply flowing from within? And the figure of the cursed poet or Bukowskian writer? I doubt that Baudelaire, Bukowski or Jack Kerouac (just to mention the more beat ones and their damned style, with which we often tend to associate the artist) had set up a literary structure before writing.
The legendary literature professor from the film Carpe Diem , played by Robin Williams, also thought so about poetry: “We don't read and write poetry because it's nice, we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is full of passion." We can therefore be carried away by the strength of writing , and be guided by "her". We are an instrument for writing, which finds its voice in us, according to the Zen concept. It penetrates our existence and its uninterrupted and passionate flow can generate extraordinary sentences, periods, chapters and books. The pen follows the thought until it loses control and, without filters, creates. Or we can follow the rules of creative writing and build our story step by step.
And how can we blame him, given that every book or film that we savor every day contains a struggle for an objective, be it saving the Commando girl or finding the love of one's life, with a thousand obstacles Phone Number Data preventing the finalization. Once the type of language has been chosen - whether first or third person - we will have to tell, trying to excite and evoke, using techniques such as metonymy (a clue), the plot twist, the deus ex machina (an external intervention), previously prepared in the plot . We are talking about a basic architecture, about foundations on which to rest our pages. But is art , I wonder, planning? Or is it simply flowing from within? And the figure of the cursed poet or Bukowskian writer? I doubt that Baudelaire, Bukowski or Jack Kerouac (just to mention the more beat ones and their damned style, with which we often tend to associate the artist) had set up a literary structure before writing.
The legendary literature professor from the film Carpe Diem , played by Robin Williams, also thought so about poetry: “We don't read and write poetry because it's nice, we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is full of passion." We can therefore be carried away by the strength of writing , and be guided by "her". We are an instrument for writing, which finds its voice in us, according to the Zen concept. It penetrates our existence and its uninterrupted and passionate flow can generate extraordinary sentences, periods, chapters and books. The pen follows the thought until it loses control and, without filters, creates. Or we can follow the rules of creative writing and build our story step by step.