Writing in the Darkness
All you need is a title. Sometimes, not even that.
You just sit down at your typewriter and start with a title. It can be something simple, like The Doctor, or The Caretaker’s Wife, or The Teacher.
Somehow, your muse will speak to you and you will come up with a first sentence, then a second, and by the time you hit your third sentence, you know you have something special going. And it happens without a plot outline, and without even a plot in mind.
The great late, pulp writer, Harlan Ellison used to famously write a story on the spot. It would be an event that would take place inside a bookstore or a coffee house.
People would gather around him, and even try and trip him up and/or break his concentration (I would not have suggested this since although he was no more than 5ft, 2in tall, Harlan was a real scrapper and a bulldog who was afraid of no one no matter how big).
In the end, he would Scotch tape the pages of the story to the wall.
People would be awed by his talent.
But in truth, there’s nothing awesome about it. Like the great Dean Wesley Smith has suggested in his book, Writing in the Dark (that’s where the idea comes from), you can train your brain and your body to do this.
If you can handle writing without a plan, you can make a heck of a lot of money for obvious reasons.
Give it a try sometime. Sit down at your typewriter with only a title in mind, and see what happens. For all you know, great things might ensue.
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