Let the Crazy Child Write! Finding your Creative Writing Voice
Synopsis:
Let the Crazy Child Write! celebrates the role of the creative unconscious or Crazy Child in stories, poems, plays, and essays. Examples show how the Crazy Child informs our writing and gives it texture and flair, and a plethora of exercises allow you to demonstrate for yourself the power of the knowledge in your own body. Topics covered are Image Detail, Slow Motion, Hook, Persona, Point of View, Dialogue, Plot, Narrative Presence, Good Cliches, Character, Surrealism, and Resolution.
Once you have a first draft, the next step is shaping your writing into its most powerful form. Let the Crazy Child Write! shows you how easy it is to follow the "kindergarten rules" of the syngenetic workshop. These guidelines honor your original, primary impulse to write and make rewriting a positive, fulfilling experience. You can use them with your internal editor, your writing partner, or your writing group.
Book Excerpt:
The Crazy Child is an aspect of your personality that is directly linked to your creative unconscious. It is the place in your body that wants to express things. It may want to tell jokes, to throw rocks, to give a flower to someone, to watch the sunset, to make up insults, to sit quietly - or to play video games. All of these impulses, all the thrilling, scary, or ordinary ones, come from your crazy child.
The Crazy Child is also your connection to the past. Everything in your genetic history, your cultural history, your familial history, and your personal history is recorded in your body - in your nervous system. Your Crazy Child has direct access to it all. Everything you have done, and everything that has been done to you, is in its domain.
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Character, Essays, Narrative, Plays, Poems, Writing
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Original Publish Date:
1998-11-11
ISBNs:
978-1-880032-35-0
Formats:
Paperback
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