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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8243665" data-attributes="member: 7016699">Last time I generated a complete story was like three years ago. Before that, it was like almost a decade, I think. As I've said elsewhere, these days when I play with language it's more likely to be poetry.My reasoning for asking, though, was mostly because my experience of GMing is that it in large part uses the same ... &quot;machinery&quot; is the metaphor I usually reach for, as writing fiction does/did, at least in my brain. If writing fiction is not a recent or major experience for you, then it's plausibly less-helpful as a basis of comparison, at least for the purposes of our conversation.That sounds more like when I generated a villanelle for our Christmas cards, and had to try several times before I had lines that were going to work, repeated as often as they would be (and were reasonably easy to rhyme, of course).I believe the point of the metaphor was that the writer in question felt as though the story was there--complete, in their brain--and the work wasn't so much creating the story as uncovering it. I free-wrote all my fiction, and it probably wouldn't have been the metaphor I would have used, but it made some sense to me.That sounds close to the experience of a writer who knows there's a story but can't figure out how to get to it. So, you try starting it at different points, you try coming back to it, you try different structures, and you hope one of them is your way into the story.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8243665, member: 7016699"] Last time I generated a complete story was like three years ago. Before that, it was like almost a decade, I think. As I've said elsewhere, these days when I play with language it's more likely to be poetry. My reasoning for asking, though, was mostly because my experience of GMing is that it in large part uses the same ... "machinery" is the metaphor I usually reach for, as writing fiction does/did, at least in my brain. If writing fiction is not a recent or major experience for you, then it's plausibly less-helpful as a basis of comparison, at least for the purposes of our conversation. That sounds more like when I generated a villanelle for our Christmas cards, and had to try several times before I had lines that were going to work, repeated as often as they would be (and were reasonably easy to rhyme, of course). I believe the point of the metaphor was that the writer in question felt as though the story was there--complete, in their brain--and the work wasn't so much creating the story as uncovering it. I free-wrote all my fiction, and it probably wouldn't have been the metaphor I would have used, but it made some sense to me. That sounds close to the experience of a writer who knows there's a story but can't figure out how to get to it. So, you try starting it at different points, you try coming back to it, you try different structures, and you hope one of them is your way into the story. [/QUOTE]

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