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From Your Brain to the Page
It’s normal for things to get lost in translation.
Thinking up stories is really, truly fun.
A writer’s brain is a interesting place to live. So many story scraps, ideas, and floating possibilities are floating through the air and ether, just begging you to take a grab at them. You can follow the string of thought to just about anywhere.
You can imagine great and beautiful things. If you’re a visual person, even picture these moments like little snippets of video behind your eyes; a masterpiece movie that nobody in the world has seen. Beautiful, stunning, soaring snippets of perfection.
That story does no good when it’s stuck inside your brain. So your job, dear writer, is to translate that perfect mental fancy into written words.
(It may, eventually, be your job — or somebody else’s — to translate those words into film. One can hope, at least! But that’s a story for another day)
But, right now, you have to write. Now. That’s the only way this whole thing goes forward.
So you, disciplined writer that you are, sit down to write your first draft. You’ve brewed the coffee, lit the candles, performed the requisite blood sacrifices to the Muses, and you are ready to go. You start writing.
