I normally take the first few sentences that, David Mamet says at the start of his video lessons. Today, I just listened and used one from the center of the video and one at the end. I laughed at each one.
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David loves structure. I have a thing for disorganization. I wondered how I could come together with Davids teachings. I can. He tells us to see the structure at the start, watch it move through the middle the end, Act 1 -Act 2- Act 3. Watch for change. See the weight of the knife. How does it change?
“Structure is very important, I mean I think a lot about structure. And I think about our greatest western philosopher. I think a lot of you guys have already beat me to the punch, when I say of course it was, Daffy Duck. Because Daffy Duck asks the essential question of philosophy which is “Say what’s going on here, anyways”
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“People said, Michelangelo’s statue of David, Right, pretty cute. And they say, my God how did you do that? He said, I just looked at this block of marble and I cut away everything that wasn’t David. And so, I grew up like everyone else thinking my God how brilliant. Until I realized, that what he was really saying, was buzz off.”
One reply on “Structuring your plot cut away what doesn’t belong”
I’m more of a pantser myself, so during my first book, I didn’t focus on structure. But, after a long editing process, and many revisions on that book, I learned the lesson of hybridization. In book 2, I added structure from draft two on. It helped me so much. I kept the organic nature of my writing by still pantsing my first draft, but added the rise and fall of pacing a tight structure brings during subsequent drafts. I’m really proud of my second book, and it took far less time.
One reply on “Structuring your plot cut away what doesn’t belong”
I’m more of a pantser myself, so during my first book, I didn’t focus on structure. But, after a long editing process, and many revisions on that book, I learned the lesson of hybridization. In book 2, I added structure from draft two on. It helped me so much. I kept the organic nature of my writing by still pantsing my first draft, but added the rise and fall of pacing a tight structure brings during subsequent drafts. I’m really proud of my second book, and it took far less time.