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One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. two, once you begin, keep on until the end. how do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?
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One, Don't Wait For Inspiration, Just Start

Roger Ebert
One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. two, once you begin, keep on until the end. how do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?
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You didn't plan to write a story; it just happened. well, it could be argued that the next thing you should do is find a hole to dig. right? so you start digging a hole and then somebody brings a body along and puts it in. that's what a story must feel like to me. it's not that you say, "i want to write a story about a gravedigger." but you're walking along and "i don't know what i'm doing here in this story,' and - boop! a shovel. "oh, interesting. ok, what does one do with a shovel? digs a hole. why? i don't know yet. dig the hole! oh, look a body."
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When i'm recording, which is synonymous with writing, i'll play things over and over again until it sounds like i've got the right guitar part. whereas i think, as the much younger player i tended to do things much more consciously. i didn't wait for the moment where inspiration might strike. that's what i do now. i wait for it to naturally start to replay itself in my mind. as i say, i don't force it. so i like to think of myself as a receiver. i'm a telephone line to who knows where, but until i hear it through that receiver, i don't usually do it. it's got to start writing itself somehow.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. if i got any comfort as i set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. he's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. if the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. and if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.
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My main goal is to stay alive. to keep fooling myself into hanging around. to keep getting up every day. right now i live without inspiration. i go day to day and do the work because it's all i know. i know that if i keep moving i stand a chance. i must keep myself going until i find a reason to live. i need one so bad. on the other hand maybe i don't. maybe it's all bullshit. nothing i knew from my old life can help me here. most of the things that i believed turned out to be useless. appendages from someone else's life.
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