tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post530117707217153316..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: The Statue Inside the Stone - Joan LennonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-48972179679667250702008-12-15T11:49:00.000+00:002008-12-15T11:49:00.000+00:00The picture makes me think of those Dr Who monster...The picture makes me think of those Dr Who monsters...<BR/>DON'T BLINK!<BR/><BR/>Sorry if I lowered the tone there.<BR/><BR/>I have thought of my books as sculptures, actually, but of something like clay rather than stone. My first stage of writing is heaping up enough clay to work with, i.e. making piles and piles of notes, much of it random nonsense, just to see if any usable material is churned up. Then when it is all there in a big heap, I can start hacking away at it, and hopefully a shape will emerge.<BR/><BR/>That image suggests that I don't think the story already exists... interesting.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307045090887391553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-1987722692423610642008-12-13T20:27:00.000+00:002008-12-13T20:27:00.000+00:00I've often used the Michelangelo idea when trying ...I've often used the Michelangelo idea when trying to explain my writing to kids.<BR/><BR/>It is the way it feels though currently I fel as if my editor has taken a hammer to my book's delcate toes!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-59523865107657624902008-12-13T09:31:00.000+00:002008-12-13T09:31:00.000+00:00That's the wonderful mystery of it--how everyday w...That's the wonderful mystery of it--how everyday words coalesce into a myriad wonderful forms for us. I love the sculptor image, Joan--always did fancy being Michaelangelo ever since I read 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' when I was about 14. Now I can imagine myself chipping away at a word here and a sentence there to uncover the plot beneath the paper.Lucy Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774389681477698245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-80634518192274013862008-12-13T08:56:00.000+00:002008-12-13T08:56:00.000+00:00Absolutely, Joan - I have always said that the sto...Absolutely, Joan - I have always said that the story is there waiting to be revealed. There's still a mystery about it - where is 'there'? and how did it get there? Is the story just in the ether, since we don't have any stone? <BR/><BR/>But there is the sense that I just stumbled on this one, and someone else could have stumbled on it instead. If Michelangelo had picked a different lump of stone and maybe Sansovino got that particular one...would they get the same statue out?Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.com