Comments on: “Writing is thinking on paper” http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/08/31/writing-is-thinking-on-paper/ Sinéad Gleeson's blog Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:33:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Sinéad http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/08/31/writing-is-thinking-on-paper/#comment-219 Sinéad Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:33:00 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/08/31/writing-is-thinking-on-paper/#comment-219 I know how she feels. I've no problem starting stories, it's getting to the end that I give up. I also have a million randoom sentences clogging up lots of notebooks! I've been reading John Irving's novels lately and he has the same approach to writing all his books - he starts at the end and works backwards. I know how she feels. I’ve no problem starting stories, it’s getting to the end that I give up. I also have a million randoom sentences clogging up lots of notebooks!
I’ve been reading John Irving’s novels lately and he has the same approach to writing all his books - he starts at the end and works backwards.

]]> By: dealga http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/08/31/writing-is-thinking-on-paper/#comment-218 dealga Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:27:38 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2005/08/31/writing-is-thinking-on-paper/#comment-218 Since I'm about as creative as a sculptor with a jackhammer feel free to take this with a pinch of salt or ignore if it's of no use, but a girl studying English I used to date in college, that hoped to specialise in short stories, would always tell me that the block would come when it came to the start or ending of a story. Every intro she wrote looked lame (so she thought). So what she did was hammer away at random bodies of potential stories, even just write random sentences that might not lead anywhere or have no context at the time, and leave the beginnings 'til the end (if that makes sense)... Since I’m about as creative as a sculptor with a jackhammer feel free to take this with a pinch of salt or ignore if it’s of no use, but a girl studying English I used to date in college, that hoped to specialise in short stories, would always tell me that the block would come when it came to the start or ending of a story. Every intro she wrote looked lame (so she thought).

So what she did was hammer away at random bodies of potential stories, even just write random sentences that might not lead anywhere or have no context at the time, and leave the beginnings ’til the end (if that makes sense)…

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