It happens to me all of the time.  I am writing and one of the people I show my first drafts to are reading and suggest that something isn’t clear, or could be different. While they sit there I start to rewrite a section that the reader had a concern with and the next thing I know, something completely different is flowing and I am typing like a word addict. Some say I get this odd look on my face, like I am on another planet, until I am finished.

I hand over the new stuff and more often than not, it is something completely different than the first version or has taken the work in an entirely different direction.  Invariably, the response I get from the reader is, “Where the hell did that come from?”

What is the right answer to that?  The muse, inside the twisted rooms in my brain, god, luck, or who the hell knows.  The truth is that for me it is a bit of magic that I can’t really control.  Sometimes the magic is stronger than other times.  Sometimes that moment of inspiration is perfect and ties together story problems, solves them and wraps it all up.  Sometimes, not so much but it always comes from the same place in my head.  It has always been hard to explain how my story telling works but all that has changed when Canal+ productions put this clip together and posted it to YouTube.  Give it a watch and drop me a ping on what you think.

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When all is said and done, the fella in the clip, had a necessity and in the end, that is how it works in my head.  Very much like the running though the woods and ending up in the box trying to explain myself.

So there you have it, a bit of thinking in the box can make a hell of a story come out of no where.

PlotDog