It's much fun, and that's exactly how I incorporate play in my creative process. Another amazing thing is this: very often I challenge myself to walk the same path but wearing the shoes of a character. I notice so many details and surprising things thanks to that! Really great technique to practice attention and focus.
To think I might not have found you and your ways had you not commented on my little vote for Knausgaard! Looking forward to reading these conversations of yours, meeting your characters... Bravo
The immersive-ness you mention reminds me of Robert Fritz and his thoughts on creating creative tension. By immersing yourself in the character you are creating a compelling vision of who they are and what they want to be - it's so compelling that writing about it isn't forced. All creative tension whether in music or any other art form yearns to find resolution - and so you are following the path of least resistance, the easiest thing to do, when you put pen to paper.
I've been thinking a little in my own substack about ruleless-ness and goalless-ness - and I think that when you have sufficient creative tension, you don't need rules and goals to keep you on the path - we need to spend more time indulging our aspirations and visions so that the next steps emerge naturally and effortlessly.
I love Excel, but Excel and creativity do. not. mix. (Super intrigued by the Excel championships though.) I have always been very, very awkward about acting so your rule does not compute for me. Free writing is more my jam!
It's much fun, and that's exactly how I incorporate play in my creative process. Another amazing thing is this: very often I challenge myself to walk the same path but wearing the shoes of a character. I notice so many details and surprising things thanks to that! Really great technique to practice attention and focus.
To think I might not have found you and your ways had you not commented on my little vote for Knausgaard! Looking forward to reading these conversations of yours, meeting your characters... Bravo
Thank you so much for reading!
No pressure 😁
The immersive-ness you mention reminds me of Robert Fritz and his thoughts on creating creative tension. By immersing yourself in the character you are creating a compelling vision of who they are and what they want to be - it's so compelling that writing about it isn't forced. All creative tension whether in music or any other art form yearns to find resolution - and so you are following the path of least resistance, the easiest thing to do, when you put pen to paper.
I've been thinking a little in my own substack about ruleless-ness and goalless-ness - and I think that when you have sufficient creative tension, you don't need rules and goals to keep you on the path - we need to spend more time indulging our aspirations and visions so that the next steps emerge naturally and effortlessly.
I love Excel, but Excel and creativity do. not. mix. (Super intrigued by the Excel championships though.) I have always been very, very awkward about acting so your rule does not compute for me. Free writing is more my jam!
Freewriting is also a kind of freestyling, aka impromptu acting 😁