Comments on: Notes on The Craft: The Writer’s Trance http://victormilan.com/blog/2007/10/13/notes-on-the-craft-the-writers-trance/ Fun, freedom, and adventure with Victor Milán Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:45:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Sara M. Harvey http://victormilan.com/blog/2007/10/13/notes-on-the-craft-the-writers-trance/#comment-96 Sara M. Harvey Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:31:24 +0000 http://victormilan.com/blog/2007/10/13/notes-on-the-craft-the-writers-trance/#comment-96 I am totally there with you on the trance thing....been doing that since I was a kid and just starting writing. I do it when I am onstage as well. I write damn well when I am trancing....but you ought to see the typos. Trying to explain them and how I made such silly mistakes is a little unnerving. Luckily, Matt does roughly the same thing...but not quite the same...so he slightly understands. Matt, however, does not write in a single, stream-of-consciousness mega blurb but crafts and smooths as he goes, not leaving his prose behind him unless it is, in his mind, perfect. When something eludes him, he paces and wanders the house muttering. Me, I sit down and just go. I use broad strokes and just keep writing and writing until something physical breaks the spell...my hand cramps up or nature calls. If I am at a reasonable stopping point, I might go back and read over what I wrote, amazed by finding words there that I don't remember having written. When I am "under" I see the images and hear the dialouge and don't remember writing any of the actual verbage used. So it is always a pleasant surprise to go back through and see what's there! ^_^ I am totally there with you on the trance thing….been doing that since I was a kid and just starting writing. I do it when I am onstage as well.
I write damn well when I am trancing….but you ought to see the typos. Trying to explain them and how I made such silly mistakes is a little unnerving. Luckily, Matt does roughly the same thing…but not quite the same…so he slightly understands.

Matt, however, does not write in a single, stream-of-consciousness mega blurb but crafts and smooths as he goes, not leaving his prose behind him unless it is, in his mind, perfect. When something eludes him, he paces and wanders the house muttering.

Me, I sit down and just go. I use broad strokes and just keep writing and writing until something physical breaks the spell…my hand cramps up or nature calls. If I am at a reasonable stopping point, I might go back and read over what I wrote, amazed by finding words there that I don’t remember having written. When I am “under” I see the images and hear the dialouge and don’t remember writing any of the actual verbage used. So it is always a pleasant surprise to go back through and see what’s there!

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