Let's give the right meaning to inspiration
Dec 27, 2023 10:46:38 GMT 2
Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 10:46:38 GMT 2
It's been a while since then, but my thoughts on inspiration haven't changed. I noticed this while writing my science fiction novel , when I didn't know how to continue a chapter, how to start it, how to end it, what name to give to that new character, how to resolve a certain situation. It would be natural to think: I must have inspiration, I must find it. Maybe looking out the window waiting for it to arrive. The only thing coming through the window is light and, if it's open, dust. In August a bat even entered me at night.
A meaning for inspiration A first meaning of the Treccani dictionary is religious: Intervention of a divine spirit which, with supernatural action, determines man's will to act or think in a certain way, or reveals truths to his mind, often stimulating and guiding him to express them through Special Data words or writings. But there is also a second one: State of enthusiasm, of fantastic excitement in which the artist creates his work, and the very reason that excites and fertilizes his imagination: writing, composing, painting in the fervor of the self . Yes, sometimes I write enthusiastically, but I am never fantastically excited. And the fervor of inspiration? It seems silly to me.
The inspiration is the search for the right attack How to start a chapter ? The difficulty, in my case, was limited to the first part of the novel, when I had to introduce the 6 stories that compose it. Starting from the second part I just had to continue those 6 stories from where I left off. But this is common to any novel. However, it remains essential to find the right attack, the most functional and also interesting start. Sometimes I solved it with a small time jump : after all, it is not written anywhere that we have to describe every moment of the characters' events. Time jumps are seen in novels as well as in films. The inspiration is the search for an effective closure How to end a chapter ? I like closures that leave the reader with the right amount of suspense , that desire to know what will happen next, how that chapter will continue.
A meaning for inspiration A first meaning of the Treccani dictionary is religious: Intervention of a divine spirit which, with supernatural action, determines man's will to act or think in a certain way, or reveals truths to his mind, often stimulating and guiding him to express them through Special Data words or writings. But there is also a second one: State of enthusiasm, of fantastic excitement in which the artist creates his work, and the very reason that excites and fertilizes his imagination: writing, composing, painting in the fervor of the self . Yes, sometimes I write enthusiastically, but I am never fantastically excited. And the fervor of inspiration? It seems silly to me.
The inspiration is the search for the right attack How to start a chapter ? The difficulty, in my case, was limited to the first part of the novel, when I had to introduce the 6 stories that compose it. Starting from the second part I just had to continue those 6 stories from where I left off. But this is common to any novel. However, it remains essential to find the right attack, the most functional and also interesting start. Sometimes I solved it with a small time jump : after all, it is not written anywhere that we have to describe every moment of the characters' events. Time jumps are seen in novels as well as in films. The inspiration is the search for an effective closure How to end a chapter ? I like closures that leave the reader with the right amount of suspense , that desire to know what will happen next, how that chapter will continue.