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How to THINK like a writer. πŸ€”

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What I love about this question that Benetti posed is that it's not how to write, it's how to think like a writer, how to think like one who creates using words. There are so many different ways we can look at this. But I started thinking about, how does my brain go about doing this? And I'm only speaking from my perspective because this is all I know. And I'm sure there are so many other ways that this is done for others

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@SeekingPlumb

I'll latch onto a word you used to use as an example of sorts, vampire. Now, if I were to take the myths of a vampire or the history of the world, all of that now the way you look at the character, right, the location, the time, all of that, and the different writers, are you going to see such vivid uses of the same mythology? Mythology is the wrong word of the same creature. Right
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@SeekingPlumb

You look at the world around you, and in trying to make sense of it, you make something that other people enjoy, hopefully, or other people read out of spite, hopefully. Hopefully, they buy it. That's the end goal. So, yes. There you go
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@Binati_Sheth Lateral & zooming in & out. (lol A tangent ride... 🀣)

When I see how prolific narrative is in a broad scheme way of using that word and how powerful it is, it makes me think that although there are bad or harmful narratives that become a part of the fabric of society or the way that we perceive ourselves in the time that we live in or whatever, like, how can we use that and shift it so that it can be a powerful influence in a different direction, right? That sometimes it's just a matter of shifting perspective
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@SeekingPlumb Aristotle’s Poetics - he wrote it to criticize Plato

It's as if it's coded into our psyche, so to speak. And love makes us do stupid s***. Love makes us do great things. It's such a brilliant I also went on a tangent, but yes, aristotle's Poetics is what you talked about the book that teaches you how to write every single story in the world for a very formulaic methodology and then what comes in place. I don't think you went on a tangent at all, actually
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@Binati_Sheth

I'm fascinated by the intention and the obstacle that you saw in Harry Potter you seem to pick it out so easily and I don't know that I would have done it so well and my inclination is to swap them that the intention is love and the obstacle is death but I'm fascinated by the way that you've put it I'm going to reflect on that a bit more even still like however these were incorporated the fact that humans we experience death the fear of death and love and so on that makes the fantastical storyline and setting accessible because it does have those real visceral human feelings fears, et cetera
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@SeekingPlumb

Definitely. So I'm good at picking it out because it's my job, right? It's literally my job. I'm professionally into writing, so I have to read a lot to be a good writer. I mean, I know that's, like, feeling you have a controversial opinion in modern writing ecosystem. Like, what? But, yeah, you have to read a lot to be able a writer a lot
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@Binati_Sheth

Limited information and my own personal observations is that the things that one reads makes a difference. And so if one is, let's say, writing ya and only consuming ya, then that can have a negative effect of creating something better. However one wants to find that right? But if you're reading a variety of genres and you're reading about ways of writing, I'm just thinking Aristotle's Poetics that you mentioned
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@emilie_vayner

I wish I knew what took a word from being simply the word and shoots it into some sort of a stratosphere of having this additional connotation and meaning attached to it. I don't know what that is. And I'm with you. There is something beautiful. And even the attempt of trying to put things into words. I often marvel at the way that we somehow understand each other when language is so amorphic. Amorphous
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@SeekingPlumb

I totally understand why that was one significant contributor to the creativity dry up we are seeing in terms of concepts and all of that. But the second reason why I think that's happening is formulaic writing is officially here. Right? There are four basic stories. Every single story you'll write will fit into one of these four boxes. And there are like 36 sub genres to these four. Which is right. Anything you write, it's going to fit into one of these numbers
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@Binati_Sheth

I don't know. Was it different than what we've seen in recent years? It felt like it, but who knows? I'm reading a couple of new authors lately that I don't know how new they are, but to tap into what you described with respect to the lens, I read a Sci-Fi book, Female Lead, which was refreshing, but there was an African influence there that you don't see a lot of
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