Paksworld

Fossils and Blind Alleys.    Discovery writers (raises hand, waving wildly) are not filled constantly with the pure essence of creativity, and so spend some time trying to muscle the story into shape.   Intellect (invaluable in revision) with  its conscious logic replaces instinct (invaluable in primary creation)  with its unconscious logic.  Sometimes intellect and instinct agree.  Sometimes they don’t.   When they don’t, instinct is nearly always right…especially in terms of the deep logic of the plot, or “what really happened.”

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