Post by MenelaosGkikas on May 27, 2021 12:34:43 GMT
Where have you gone to, dreamer? Whose dreams are you dreaming now? I’ve memorized this quote from an epic fantasy game, known to many of you as Dreamfall. The edition included game over options and it seemed quite uncomfortable for me to play it back then, even though it couldn’t run properly. Perhaps now that I have watched it as a movie in YouTube I have got the complete perspective! What am I talking about? About the importance for creatives following their own dreams, listening their own voices and not somebody else’s. Journeying the creative spirit sometimes blocks us in mammoth problems that test our ideas on group norms, socializing, leadership or proper behavior. But this is the general mindset now applied in creative writing.
Crafting a story on what you do, why you do it, how you do it and where do you think it will take you, is important to get freed from dogma at somewhere around the middle of the journey. But then you seem haunted by another reality: kickstart, middle part and end of story. Fiction literature is influential enough to make our imaginations hatch through the power of imagery, wannabe robust writing and vocabulary, plot and taste. Imagery is all about imaginative language with pictures, sometimes intended to uplift our minds to the spiritual. There are five main types of imagery, each related to one of the human senses: Visual imagery (sight), Auditory imagery (hearing), Olfactory imagery (smell), Gustatory imagery (taste), Tactile imagery (touch) plus another two: Kinesthetic and Organic.
Kinesthetic has to do with the entire, complete, full sense of experiencing a project whereas organic has to do with all parts, schemes and canons of written word embraced in a script as a whole, an organism in other words. Nevertheless, besides specialized analysis we all acknowledge that the power of the image in our century has been tremendous, huge. First of all, sight could be addressed to the mesmerizing descriptions of how we envision a world, how can a universe be created by music, how The Battle of Hogwarts begins. Hearing is all about dialogue, noise, explosions, etc. Smell and taste become somewhat detailed descriptions of the exact action. And touch does not refer to The Untouchables but becoming tangible e.g. with objects or artifacts.
Let’s now get to some bare facts related with fantasy. Facts, contrary to fantasy have to do with all these allegories, messages in a script, parallel realities, experiences of the writer in the real world that show us that fairytales may not be that fairytales after all, moving on with irony, distortion or just criticism of what happened. Epic fairytales have dealt as well with the issue of death and resurrection, issues of temptations that couldn’t be more dramatic nowadays, the issue of betrayal, relationship issues or plain portrayal of one problem solving. So, the writer obviously asks: How am I supposed to find my true and unique voice in all the above? The answer, for me at least, couldn’t be simpler: Exposition.
Nevertheless, this isn’t a one size fits all solution nor you are obliged to follow it. Exposition to scripts and content, exposition with education, exposition with creative experimentation, exposition with arts and sciences, exposition with technology, exposition with argumentations, exposition to business, have all been extremely strong experiences for me that led me to venture with writing and screenwriting. As I have stated above it’s all about the kinesthetic you, that differs from one person to another! It’s all about not fearing to get crushed. So, how can all the above be integrated to fantasy stories? Making choices, choosing sides, creating, laughing and crying with your writing, getting organized at some point, will probably make the wish come true.
For me, it has been an amazing experience that I would like to share with you. So, I will motivate you to navigate my Independent Authors Network page I created a little while ago. You can see my books already attached in this article, here’s the link: bit.ly/39chSSQ