Let’s say your task is to write a one-page description of your project and, coming out of your ‘creative fugue’, you find yourself with three pages almost black with text.
You ask yourself:
- What is my story about?
- What is my story in one paragraph of three to six sentences?
- What is my story in one sentence?
It’s about finding the absolute core of your story: A fearful lass takes aikido lessons and learns about life – and sometimes finding a theme en route: Aikido teaches you to wait until you can see the whites of your enemies’ eyes.
But back to me and my screeds of story and character and plot notes, and my drowning dreams, and my hands that are tired and hurting from constantly being bunched into fists… and the realisation that I just have to walk away just far enough to say:
- What the heck am I writing?
From a certain distance – and without my spectacles – you’d be surprised.
