Alive writing.

A teaching from Jules Verne.

Do you draw? No? Then, this article isn’t for you. Everybody else please follow me. I’ve noticed something.

I was reading a passage from Jules Verne book and that’s quite something. No really, he was describing an environment. He didn’t only make the usual description: “There was a tree and two meters from it was another.” No, he described it through interaction.

“This is how one should describe it!”

It reminded me of a drawing process. You draw a blank normal 2d drawing of a tree and next to it your hero. It may be cool butt separate. After some time, you get a bit bored with it and start to notice a calling: “Hey, let me touch the stone. Draw us together.”

You go for it, pull your head back, and the result isn’t perfect. His hand is strange, the stone is also. But even thought the details are strange, there is this feeling of aliveness.

The same what Verne did! He wasn’t telling you plainly: “There is a tree.” He rather went: “He touched something. Turned his head, and there it was. The shadowy structure was eating almost all of his vision. His eyes started to climb up the shadows till it split all over the sky. ‘Wou, that’s a huge tree!’”

Painting it in our imagination.

Now, do you remember what I just said to you? Yeah? Now forget it. When you are writing there shouldn’t be any agenda. This is so strange. When you are in it, let it go wherever it wants to go. Even that needs to go. Everything needs to go! You can stay. Don’t be so touchy!

Ah, it’s so strange to talk about it. If you are writing or drawing in that sense, you probably know what I mean. That’s all I have for you. Eat a cake or something. Or don’t! It will numb your creative instincts!

Bye,

Luke