Breadcrumbs

Often clients will ask what the plan is for a life story I am writing. Every writer will have their own process for the gathering, sorting, arranging and writing of life material but I believe it is the material that suggests to us how we might best handle it.

So I am not the type of writer that sets up a chapter by chapter plan.

When I take on a story, I understand there is first the need for open listening and documenting without trying to prescribe any sort of format or outcome. 

I approach each story as an act of creative endeavour, an exploration that can only reveal itself as the project progresses. There is no way of knowing every intricacy or turn in a story when we first start. The process is a creative act shared between subject and writer that often follows an uncertain path, but nevertheless one with its own inherent wisdom and foundation.

I liken this to the gathering of breadcrumbs. Every story crumb drops at our feet to be considered and formed into a coherent thread. 

One breadcrumb leads you to the next…

And the next… 

And so the process unfolds.

Every story will reveal itself and for me the end result is richer and more nuanced. 

 

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