Humainologie creative dialogue Writing and Awareness tomorrow Wednesday December 9

“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote and brings to birth in us also the creative impulse.” - E.M. Forster

Recently I began rereading parts of Anna Karenina and again experienced the depth that Tolstoy brings to my awareness of life.

Imagine what might happen if you were to develop that evocative power of Tolstoy in your own writing. If you put your mind to it, could you reach the point that you can “write like Tolstoy”? Is it possible?

I think the answer is yes, but just to keep this idea moving, let’s assume the answer is no, and keep going anyway. Okay, it’s impossible. But if it were possible, what would it look like? How would you gradually develop the capability to write like Tolstoy?

One way to approach it would be in five steps:

1. Consciously develop new strategies for generating story ideas.

2. Read and reread the author(s) of your choice (try Tolstoy) and emulate them as you make the process of writing a habit, and each part of that process an atomic habit.

3. Once you have several hundred words of good work, print them out. Then – using the same font and layout as you used for your own work - print out a similar number of words from Tolstoy (or another great author of your choice) and give the two pieces to several naïve readers. Ask each of them to read both pieces and guess which one is your work, and which one is the work of a famous author.

4. Make note of the results.

5. Repeat the process.

Suppose you did this for a year and by the end of that time, sure enough, you can write with that depth and brilliance of Tolstoy. So what?

My guess would be that your appreciation of every day of your life would be vastly enriched. You would have to run the experiment to know the result.

Tomorrow, Wednesday December 9, starting at 6:30 PM, our creative dialogue team practice will focus on that first step, developing new strategies for generating story ideas. Here is the Zoom link from Shinobu: Dec 9, 2020 06:30 PM Dec 16, 2020 06:30 PM Dec 23, 2020 06:30 PM Dec 30, 2020 06:30 PM Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89466067851?pwd=TzY2T1ZrVWNjdGo5aWhMSFV1cTVBQT09

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Just imagine!

Arthur