Michael: I have been struck with the frequency with which writers (of
novels) refer to their writings coming from their "subconscious". Characters
take over the story in ways the novelist hadn't planned. Some novelists are
suprised at how their stories turn out. Which leads me to believe that
relaxing and finding if there is something in you that wants to be
expressed, in words/paint/whatever. I do believe that there is room for
judgment about the academic side (good punctuation, appropriate grammar)
being applied to the telling of the story. How that might translate to
painting I'll avoid.
Geoff C
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Subject: Re: Envisioning
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:20:58 -0400
On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:41 PM, armando baeza wrote:
I don't think Michael has the desire to become a classical composer.
A little melody with some variation would probably do with him.
I think you're missing my point.
I really don't want to learn how to compose music or write stories. I'm
just intrigued by how people who can do that do that.
I know when I paint or do graphic design, how to approach the blank sheet,
how to start, but more important, how to conceive the whole and see how
the parts can--and then do--fit together. How do others do it?
For me, to expand this discussion, anxiety in many things comes, not so
much in not knowing how to start, but in not knowing how to make the
transit to the ending. I remember taking a trip several years ago, going
to a place I knew but by a different route across poorly marked country on
dirt roads, and getting very apprehensive and anxiety ridden because I
really didn't know where I was and how I would come out of the wilderness.
I did get there, and I did know that eventually if I kept driving in one
direction, I would again get to a paved road on the map, but that was a
long 10 miles in completely unmarked terrain.
I remember a time when I was putting the grandchildren to bed and I didn't
have a book to read, so I tried to tell a story out of pure invention ...
and I couldn't think of anything. Nothing came, and I felt very stranded,
sort of like the trip across the unmarked terrain. I didn't know how to
get across the gulf of unknowing.
Weird.
So, I was asking how others get an idea and then take it to a larger, more
elaborate completion--especially writing a story or musical composition.
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