To See a Story?
Wednesday August 6, 2008
Orson Scott Card once wrote: "Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any."
Do you ever see something happen and say: "That would be a great story... or poem... or novel." Or, do you see something happen, and remember an episode in a novel." In everyday life, we see examples of universal experiences. We see the stuff that writers have used as fodder for the great novels in literary history. Do you ever compare your life to the universality of fiction and poetry?
Do you ever see something happen and say: "That would be a great story... or poem... or novel." Or, do you see something happen, and remember an episode in a novel." In everyday life, we see examples of universal experiences. We see the stuff that writers have used as fodder for the great novels in literary history. Do you ever compare your life to the universality of fiction and poetry?
Comments
So sort of like deja vu, either you do something or see something that’s really familiar, then you remember it’s like a scene that happened in a book you just read
That happens to me alot, it’s actually sort of cool
I like this quote from Scott Card. And it’s pretty telling, really. There are thousands of story ideas everywhere we go, and he says GOOD WRITERS will see only half a percent of them? Those are pretty good odds, actually.
If your readers want to find story ideas, or to read more about Orson Scott Card’s views on writing, they can visit:
http://www.debgallardo.com/virtuoso/702/story-ideas-asking-why-and-what-if/