The workshop today was a little slow. We didn't do any writing like I thought we would. Reed seems to have a very different approach to writing than I've seen. He emphasizes entertainment value over meaning. I always think that if the meaning part is nailed, entertainment will come along with it. He also lost me a little when he was talking about how every novel is a mystery novel and started to list novels that have murders in them. That didn't make too much sense to me. It started to make sense to me when he explained that all novels were mystery novels because they all answer the same four questions. Who am I? Why am I here? How did I get here? What does it mean?
His way of finding inspiration was interesting to me too. He uses newspaper stories. This was cool to me. We've learned a lot of ways to come up with ideas in STAC. He had the same attitude that writer's block or any kind of artist's block is just an excuse.
Today was a lot of basic stuff, but I'm really excited to get started with this first chapter assignment. I've never tried writing a novel before, so I'm excited to jump into it.
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