Hello, comfortable writers,
A couple of weeks ago we issued you a challenge: Write outside of your comfort zone.
Many of you accepted that challenge and shared with us the results.
One of you, who has asked to be anonymous but is letting me share her reply, gave me a great idea for an exercise (which I've shared in greater detail in this week's blog post).
See, she was really struggling with a two-character scene reliant on dialogue; no matter how she tried, it wasn't coming out right.
"Then I read this thing about form and experimentation," she writes, "and I went back and rewrote the scene in screenplay format. WAY outside my comfort zone, for real."
And you know what? It worked.
"After just one draft the conversation was much better," she says. "Just by trying it in a different form."
So that's what we want you to do now, friends: Get out of your comfort zone by
working in a different form.
Struggling with a screenplay scene? Write it out as prose fiction. Agonizing over your poem's next word? Write a story about a poet agonizing over a word. Can't quite nail the tone of
your blog post? Write it as if it's a speech.
Discover new things, then share
those discoveries! That's half the fun of writing.
