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ah, and so i've written my final page. melly's so gonna have a hard time ending it. but like i said, she's like the god who ultimately decides what happens to the protagonist. so after we write we'd usually reflect (academicians like us using this word) on the process, what we learnt, bla bla bla.
true, the process' only been a week or so (sigh, pendeknye) but i've picked up a coupla things along the way. the whole purpose of this exercise is to see how much we can stretch one another (in the cleanest way, of course) in terms of our writing. melly and i have contrasting styles. she employs more language (like metaphors and canggih, more descriptive words) while i go for simple, leaving the rest to the reader to interpret. her sentences are more complete, mine are more single-worded, truncated. melly's more into narration and i like playing around the ambience. not sure if the last sentence's a comparison, but yea. that's how different we both are.
and so, putting both of us together, we get a piece like this. like melly said, we don't become one another. we stick to how we write and see what comes out of it.
this exercise is well, particularly challenging 'cause we don't know what each other's thoughts are. like for instance, i wrote the first page without anticipating how it'd be, and melly continued on with a frame in mind. i didn't follow this frame in the third page 'cause i couldn't read her mind, but i continued as such that i kept the flow and connected to the stories together. and hence, the creative process. we're constantly giving each other 'problems', and we're forced to work our way out of it.
of course, there's the easy way out by just mere writing for the sake of continuing (but doesn't make sense, connect, etc.); this may or may not be creative. it's creating something per se, but not necessarily creativity. when things don't connect or make sense, they're different things in their entirety. for instance. a monkey is put in a locked cage in which the only way to escape'd be to obtain a key hanging from above. if the monkey works around his way into getting the key so he'd escape, that'd be creativity. if the monkey wants to get out but decides to take out a canvass and draw instead, we can't say that creativity isn't present. it is, but in another form. i hope i'm making sense here, heh.
in terms of idea flow and formation, i discovered quite a few things here. when chain-writing, always pay attention to every single bit that you write, and the other person writes. chain-writing isn't just continuing for the sake of it; it's a detailed analyses of themes, words, and playing around, developing them. for instance. i mentioned a bottle of pee in the beginning, and it came up in the fifth page. well, there's a connection there, but there's not enough depth that the bottle of pee can just be about anything. so it doesn't quite serve a purpose. whatever the writer writes in the preceding page, the following pages must follow up. whether the follow up is cliché or novel or bizarre, it doesn't matter. if there's isn't, then there's no connection, and when there's no connection, it splits into different stories. and when there's the split, creativity in this sense is absent.
speaking of which, creativity is subjective. what is creative to one person may not be to another. if a person has seen so much of the world and is literally jaded by it, things won't be as exciting as a child who's only opened his or her eyes in seeing the world. that said, it's really difficult to measure what creativity is. that's why in doing this project, we've gotta define what it is. i've got my definitions, and melly's got hers. combining both for our report'd do the trick.
when i write my pages, i keep telling myself to attempt bizarre, novel ideas (in my sense), so does that make it more creative than when i choose continue it with an idea i've seen, read, heard before? again, very the subjective. and more so, we're writing for an audience. they're not gonna see everything the way i do. some might read it and really like it, some might say it's crap, that it's been done before. so something that's been done before is not creative? hmm.
i guess if i have to come down to a sentence or two on what creativity is, i'd say this. it's about using new approaches in attempting old things in response to that particular individual. i'm yet to read what the scholars say about creativity, so i'll see if i come close.
but all in all, it's been fun. melly and i were just saying that we should continue this and get our friends to join in the orgy. heh.
booya!
true, the process' only been a week or so (sigh, pendeknye) but i've picked up a coupla things along the way. the whole purpose of this exercise is to see how much we can stretch one another (in the cleanest way, of course) in terms of our writing. melly and i have contrasting styles. she employs more language (like metaphors and canggih, more descriptive words) while i go for simple, leaving the rest to the reader to interpret. her sentences are more complete, mine are more single-worded, truncated. melly's more into narration and i like playing around the ambience. not sure if the last sentence's a comparison, but yea. that's how different we both are.
and so, putting both of us together, we get a piece like this. like melly said, we don't become one another. we stick to how we write and see what comes out of it.
this exercise is well, particularly challenging 'cause we don't know what each other's thoughts are. like for instance, i wrote the first page without anticipating how it'd be, and melly continued on with a frame in mind. i didn't follow this frame in the third page 'cause i couldn't read her mind, but i continued as such that i kept the flow and connected to the stories together. and hence, the creative process. we're constantly giving each other 'problems', and we're forced to work our way out of it.
of course, there's the easy way out by just mere writing for the sake of continuing (but doesn't make sense, connect, etc.); this may or may not be creative. it's creating something per se, but not necessarily creativity. when things don't connect or make sense, they're different things in their entirety. for instance. a monkey is put in a locked cage in which the only way to escape'd be to obtain a key hanging from above. if the monkey works around his way into getting the key so he'd escape, that'd be creativity. if the monkey wants to get out but decides to take out a canvass and draw instead, we can't say that creativity isn't present. it is, but in another form. i hope i'm making sense here, heh.
in terms of idea flow and formation, i discovered quite a few things here. when chain-writing, always pay attention to every single bit that you write, and the other person writes. chain-writing isn't just continuing for the sake of it; it's a detailed analyses of themes, words, and playing around, developing them. for instance. i mentioned a bottle of pee in the beginning, and it came up in the fifth page. well, there's a connection there, but there's not enough depth that the bottle of pee can just be about anything. so it doesn't quite serve a purpose. whatever the writer writes in the preceding page, the following pages must follow up. whether the follow up is cliché or novel or bizarre, it doesn't matter. if there's isn't, then there's no connection, and when there's no connection, it splits into different stories. and when there's the split, creativity in this sense is absent.
speaking of which, creativity is subjective. what is creative to one person may not be to another. if a person has seen so much of the world and is literally jaded by it, things won't be as exciting as a child who's only opened his or her eyes in seeing the world. that said, it's really difficult to measure what creativity is. that's why in doing this project, we've gotta define what it is. i've got my definitions, and melly's got hers. combining both for our report'd do the trick.
when i write my pages, i keep telling myself to attempt bizarre, novel ideas (in my sense), so does that make it more creative than when i choose continue it with an idea i've seen, read, heard before? again, very the subjective. and more so, we're writing for an audience. they're not gonna see everything the way i do. some might read it and really like it, some might say it's crap, that it's been done before. so something that's been done before is not creative? hmm.
i guess if i have to come down to a sentence or two on what creativity is, i'd say this. it's about using new approaches in attempting old things in response to that particular individual. i'm yet to read what the scholars say about creativity, so i'll see if i come close.
but all in all, it's been fun. melly and i were just saying that we should continue this and get our friends to join in the orgy. heh.
booya!
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