Comments on: “Yes, And…” Improv and Writing http://www.writersfunzone.com/blog/2009/01/25/yes-and-improv-and-writing/ Reach for the Stars. Play like a Child. Write like a Fiend. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:32:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter http://www.writersfunzone.com/blog/2009/01/25/yes-and-improv-and-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Peter Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:55:16 +0000 http://www.writersfunzone.com/blog/?p=320#comment-71 In my experience, art is part Vision, and part series-of-providential-mistakes-and-events. Most of my creations turned out different than planned, and usually better. We always do better when willing to flow with the creative process, and let the piece reveal itself to us and to the world. Is Art our means of self-expression, or are we Art's? In my experience, art is part Vision, and part series-of-providential-mistakes-and-events. Most of my creations turned out different than planned, and usually better. We always do better when willing to flow with the creative process, and let the piece reveal itself to us and to the world.

Is Art our means of self-expression, or are we Art’s?

]]> By: denzil j meyers http://www.writersfunzone.com/blog/2009/01/25/yes-and-improv-and-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-63 denzil j meyers Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:56:38 +0000 http://www.writersfunzone.com/blog/?p=320#comment-63 Yes! beth. I think there's a big opportunity is in approaching first-draft writing as "play" — have fun with the process, and go along for the ride. perhaps plan on taking a few unusual risks following new directions. let go of the responsibility to "know" everything. try to: explore, listen, and follow your partners — i.e. the setting & circumstances, characters, your own subconscious, wherever else inexplicable else ideas and voices and sweet lines come from... writing, as all creative acts, is part conscious, part sub(un) conscious. play & improv helps us tap into what we don't know we DO know. Yes! beth. I think there’s a big opportunity is in approaching first-draft
writing as “play” — have fun with the process, and go along for the ride.
perhaps plan on taking a few unusual risks following new directions.

let go of the responsibility to “know” everything. try to: explore, listen,
and follow your partners — i.e. the setting & circumstances, characters,
your own subconscious, wherever else inexplicable else ideas and
voices and sweet lines come from…

writing, as all creative acts, is part conscious, part sub(un) conscious.
play & improv helps us tap into what we don’t know we DO know.

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