Story Lab Week 14


For week 1 I chose to do a story lab instead of a story. The post I am choosing to read about is “Why you should open yourself up to the possibilities of Story” by Anthony Ehlers. In this story he talks about writers block and that one of the tactics is to just write every title down that goes with the subject you are going to write about. This might spark a little flame to start writing. Or another tactic is to just start writing and let your imagination take the lead, such as with the case of the girl getting off the bus and then coming back to no bus. She asks around and no one ever saw a bus or even remembered her. This is an example of letting your imagination take the lead. One of the writers quoted “Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.” This was said by Lorrie Moore, I found this quote interesting because I don’t know if I fully agree with this statement, because I do believe writers have an expertise in their field, because when they are generating a story they are thinking ahead of what the character will evolve to or what the next step to a story is to make it hard to put down.

Article Source: Story Lab


(Above in the picture is the author of “Why you should open yourself up to the possibilities of story” . Picture Source:Story Lab )


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