Writing Around an Idea: A Fiction Reading and Advice for Creative Writers

Authors

Sandra Smith Hutchins, Belmont UniversityFollow

Abstract

This is what I’m talking about: the possibility that an idea can stand in the doorway and block imaginative discovery. Th at doesn’t always mean we can’t write it. It does mean we may need to find a way to maneuver around it, crawl between legs, perhaps—or a way to write around it, so that it becomes a stamen for petals to grow onto, the full-blown flower oft en becoming the “real” story and the original idea still important but now merely a smaller brown center to something that has potential to surprise us.

Keywords

Humanities Symposium

Recommended Citation

Hutchins, Sandra Smith (2010) "Writing Around an Idea: A Fiction Reading and Advice for Creative Writers," Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal: Vol. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium_journal/vol1/iss1/8