Comments on: The Great Paradox of Creativity https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-paradox-of-creativity/ Story. Screenplay. Sale. Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: El Clandestino https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-paradox-of-creativity/#comment-1346 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:58:00 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=26591#comment-1346 Thanks David, very interesting read. However, I don’t really believe in restrictions – I mean I do, but only a set of rules you impose upon yourself, not some external set of rules. I find writers today are too concerned with writing to meet external expectations, making most of modern literature pedictable and unadventurous. If Faulkner today approached a publisher with an unpublished The Fast and The Fury, I believe he would get laughed out of the office. I believe most greatness comes from thinking outside the box. That’s not too say you can’t be creative and have greatness within the box but I just think that having these external principles to meet curtails ones creativity a great deal.

And the poster who spoke about Picasso- I’m sure Faulkner spent hours over every sentence he wrote, one doesn’t achieve greatness on a whim, that’s not the point above, with respect.

]]> By: Steven Fernandez https://www.thestorydepartment.com/the-great-paradox-of-creativity/#comment-1345 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:47:00 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=26591#comment-1345 As an on-going critic of loglines for Karel’s website, I can relate to the central point being made here … Too often I have read loglines and story concepts that fall flat due to a lack of discipline or thorough thinking on the part of the writer. Protagonist motivations, for example, can often be poorly thought out and unconvincing. Or certain basic requirements for drama (such as a compelling antagonist) are not paid attention to. It is noteworthy that Picasso, for instance, did sketches on his canvases before painting his most surrealist works. So the ideology that high creativity is formless is plain false.

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