Content-mind provides us with ideas for things to write about and material to use craft-mind gives us the words and sentences we need to get what we want to say into the minds of readers. We can think of the writer's mind as having two main parts: content-mind and craft-mind. The goal of writing practice is to train your writer's mind. Finally, we use the medium of language to transfer the pictures in our minds to the imaginations of our readers. From this storehouse we select images to use in our stories, and we combine bits and pieces of images in order to make new ones.
It is a storehouse of images taken from direct observation of the world around us, from books and magazines and movies and anything else we encounter that we pay attention to. The imagination is the mental faculty that thinks in pictures. You may want to take some time to review the imagination practices (lessons 16-20). If we want our stories to speak to the imaginations of readers, then, we need to know something about the faculty of imagination. (In this respect a story, whether told or read, is different from a play, which is taking place in front of the audience’s eyes.) Whether the story is true or invented, realistic or fantastic, it is never taking place, for the reader, in the world around her it is always taking place in an world inside her head, an imagined world. The imagination is central to making stories, for when a reader reads one of our stories, it takes place in her or his imagination.
Wallace Hildeck (a writer and teacher) points out: Read More But then the nature of written storytelling changed. Until the twentieth century, almost all fiction replicated this relationship: the narrator of the story was talking TO his or her readers. In cultures without writing, stories depend for their lives on the face-to-face engagement of tellers and listeners. In oral cultures, the existence of stories depends entirely on this relationship without it, the story would not be told, could not be remembered. The Relationship between Teller and ListenersĪt the heart of any told story-told out loud or on the page-is a relationship: the relationship between the storyteller and the audience. Jane Yolen, introduction to Folk Tales of the World It must hold the reader as the spoken tale holds the listener… But it is a subtle art.…the art of storytelling in the printed book must persuade and captivate. And the literary storyteller is one who must try to bring eye and ear into synchronization. But the eye and the ear are different listeners, are different audience.
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