Inspiration for story ideas often comes in the form of a faint feeling; a sensation that hovers at the edge of awareness like an empty room waiting to be filled with furniture. If the writer looks to sharply at this vaporous image, considers it too closely, it will often fade. A writer must find the door, usually some word, phrase, or action, and enter slowly and easily.
This was illustrated beautifully and hilariously in Danny Kaye's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". The titular character entered his own creative mode, his escape from reality, when the feeling hit him and with the onomatopoeia ta pocketa pocketa .
This writer often starts out on the exploration with "She crouched silently..." and then a leap. But that gets one funny looks in public.
This was illustrated beautifully and hilariously in Danny Kaye's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty". The titular character entered his own creative mode, his escape from reality, when the feeling hit him and with the onomatopoeia ta pocketa pocketa .
This writer often starts out on the exploration with "She crouched silently..." and then a leap. But that gets one funny looks in public.
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