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#WritersCoffeeClub May 22: How do you make a location you’ve never visited feel ‘real’ for the reader?
As others have mentioned, sensory details. Things that set a mood or aesthetic that will hopefully trigger the reader's imagination via some vaguely familiar thing.
I write a lot of details for myself but during edits I try to strip away everything that isn't necessary to avoid overwhelming the reader with description.
#ScribesAndMakers May 22. Which creative activities do you engage in (almost) every day?
Its not typically thought of as "creative" but reading/acquiring new knowledge is a daily activity that sends me off on wandering mental journeys, stokes my curiosity and refills my creative well.
Recently I've also been gardening so I'm in the garden every day.
Journaling is an almost daily activity.
I have written some poetry but I don't really enjoy it for creative expression.
One of my art classes in college included an art show. I decided to cut up my favorite pants as a bit of catharsis and add more paint to them. I strung them up on a clothesline.
My very first story I wrote down was a haunted house story with all the horror my child mind could articulate. We* were caretakers of a vacation house so inspiration was abundant.
*My parents and me to a degree
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and that whole process of breathing new life into things. I guess I see creativity as that transference of life and breath into objects which were otherwise not "alive" but become vessels for purpose and meaning.
Its interesting to me how we often restore art in an effort to keep that little spark alive and how much skill and creative insight it takes to do it well.
I think repair as a concept requires a certain creativity even when the repair itself is a minor thing.
We don't always have a vision for what to do with broken things but I think that when we give up on broken things it is an expression of the limits of our creativity. Which can be okay because often someone else has the vision to transform it.
Often companies allow things to break because they lack creative vision beyond profit.
Repair is linked into repurpose...
#ScribesAndMakers 5/20. Do you consider repair work creative? Why?
Absolutely!
Often times we repair ourselves via our creative work. Reimagining a version of a world with pieces of our own experience slotted into a larger narrative. Using our senses to reshape and move materials to express something glimpsed briefly and elongating that moment of discovery.
But also, "smaller" work like mending is creative because we imagine the damaged object transformed and then we make it so.
The difference between creating “a gigantic plagiarism laundering apparatus” and “a vibrant commons of the human knowledge” is social and not technical.
No technology can make the former become the latter. Or protect anyone from it.
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Jenny Lam
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