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The process of making a book is a long, complicated one, filled with adventures, mishaps, and a few inspired moments of bliss. Writers start, stop, erase, slam their heads down on the table, and then start again. Quite frequently, writers encounter discouragement in the face of despairing failure. During their quest and trial of creating a story, they grasp a concept that revolutionizes their way of writing, creating, and thinking.
For one particular story of mine, I created a fantasy world where the characters would suddenly find themselves hopelessly lost. This world was similar but extremely different from our Earth. However, with everything I imagined, I also used science to explain why something happened. For example, in the fantasy world, water floats. My scientific reasoning behind this was that the water could manipulate its density to become lighter or heavier than air. I applied similar reasoning to every other aspect of the world, whether it was flying snakes or levitating rocks. However, my range of thoughts was very limited. I had fantastic ideas, but I couldn't manipulate science to make them plausible. So, I abandoned them.
I was lying in my bed one night, kicking the dog snoring at the foot of my bed and mulling thoughts over in my mind. Everything I had imagined thus far for my book ran through my head. My thoughts were also being held by a video I had recently watched, “Imagining the Tenth Dimension.” In this video, it explains one of the dimensions as a line between ours and a different universe where the laws of physics are different, such as the speed of light being a different number or gravity being stronger. Suddenly, a beam of light descended upon me, birds burst into song, and I realized that my book didn't need reasoning behind it. This was a fantasy book, for goodness sakes, and I could do whatever pleased me! The laws of physics did not have to apply to the world. The horizon suddenly opened and thousands of possible ideas flooded through my head, keeping me awake for the good part of an hour.
A few days later in my English class, my teacher had us read some magazines she had accumulated over the course of the year as we waited for the rest of the class to finish a test. I picked a particular magazine that was about writing and began reading an article about a particular part of writing that interested me: fantasy writing. The room was silent except the sounds of the occasional page turn. In the article, it discussed making fantasy writing believable. The writer of the article stated that you could have living teacups fighting circus bears on the moon for control of the world’s cheese supply and people would believe it as long as it has believable characters and a plausible plot with a credible motive behind it.
I began to think about the book I was planning to write, and I realized that even though I have the freedom to do whatever I want, I still have limits in my writing. My artistic freedom was curtailed, but for the better of my future books. If I had not had this realization, I could have taken my newfound freedom to the extreme and create thin characters and shady plot lines. The whimsical book would have been ruined by poor writing caused by ignorance.
If both of these revelations had not occurred, I could have written poor stories that would not have improved my writing, and I would have had to learn these lessons the hard way, trial and error. Brilliant ideas could have been ruined by a lack of knowledge. To my luck, I realized these things without a trial and error process. Even months after I had these insights, I am still writing, creating, and thinking about books in an entirely different light. It has undoubtedly impacted me and my writing significantly.
Stereotypical conclusion transition, weak conclusion that is rather sketchy, and so on, and so forth, and what have you!
Some thing
The other thing
The date.
BODACIOUSLY AWESOME TITLE
The process of making a book is a long, complicated one, filled with adventures, mishaps, and a few inspired moments of bliss. Writers start, stop, erase, slam their heads down on the table, and then start again. Quite frequently, writers encounter discouragement in the face of despairing failure. During their quest and trial of creating a story, they grasp a concept that revolutionizes their way of writing, creating, and thinking.
For one particular story of mine, I created a fantasy world where the characters would suddenly find themselves hopelessly lost. This world was similar but extremely different from our Earth. However, with everything I imagined, I also used science to explain why something happened. For example, in the fantasy world, water floats. My scientific reasoning behind this was that the water could manipulate its density to become lighter or heavier than air. I applied similar reasoning to every other aspect of the world, whether it was flying snakes or levitating rocks. However, my range of thoughts was very limited. I had fantastic ideas, but I couldn't manipulate science to make them plausible. So, I abandoned them.
I was lying in my bed one night, kicking the dog snoring at the foot of my bed and mulling thoughts over in my mind. Everything I had imagined thus far for my book ran through my head. My thoughts were also being held by a video I had recently watched, “Imagining the Tenth Dimension.” In this video, it explains one of the dimensions as a line between ours and a different universe where the laws of physics are different, such as the speed of light being a different number or gravity being stronger. Suddenly, a beam of light descended upon me, birds burst into song, and I realized that my book didn't need reasoning behind it. This was a fantasy book, for goodness sakes, and I could do whatever pleased me! The laws of physics did not have to apply to the world. The horizon suddenly opened and thousands of possible ideas flooded through my head, keeping me awake for the good part of an hour.
A few days later in my English class, my teacher had us read some magazines she had accumulated over the course of the year as we waited for the rest of the class to finish a test. I picked a particular magazine that was about writing and began reading an article about a particular part of writing that interested me: fantasy writing. The room was silent except the sounds of the occasional page turn. In the article, it discussed making fantasy writing believable. The writer of the article stated that you could have living teacups fighting circus bears on the moon for control of the world’s cheese supply and people would believe it as long as it has believable characters and a plausible plot with a credible motive behind it.
I began to think about the book I was planning to write, and I realized that even though I have the freedom to do whatever I want, I still have limits in my writing. My artistic freedom was curtailed, but for the better of my future books. If I had not had this realization, I could have taken my newfound freedom to the extreme and create thin characters and shady plot lines. The whimsical book would have been ruined by poor writing caused by ignorance.
If both of these revelations had not occurred, I could have written poor stories that would not have improved my writing, and I would have had to learn these lessons the hard way, trial and error. Brilliant ideas could have been ruined by a lack of knowledge. To my luck, I realized these things without a trial and error process. Even months after I had these insights, I am still writing, creating, and thinking about books in an entirely different light. It has undoubtedly impacted me and my writing significantly.
Stereotypical conclusion transition, weak conclusion that is rather sketchy, and so on, and so forth, and what have you!
So that was an epiphany paper I wrote for my English class (with a few small edits to make it more humorous (just for you!)). As we were preparing to write it, many people in the class immediately began making complaints. "I've never had an epiphany!" "How can I write about this?" "What does epiphany even mean?" "Why are you reading this in a whiny voice?"
I was sitting in the corner, thinking to myself, "I just had an epiphany last night. I don't know what you guys are talking about!" Seriously, I have at least two life-changing experiences every month.
I was sitting in the corner, thinking to myself, "I just had an epiphany last night. I don't know what you guys are talking about!" Seriously, I have at least two life-changing experiences every month.
4/23/13