Jabrosky
Banned
Very often I visually imagine characters, settings, or scenes that I really want to write down, but for some reason I don't feel like expanding those moments into larger, more complex novel-type stories; I simply want to capture the moments themselves in prose. For instance, this evening I had the mental image of a pterosaur soaring above a prehistoric jungle landscape, so I started writing down his journey and what landmarks and creatures he might fly past (I'm about 600 words into it so far). I have given this pterosaur a brief background (he's a widower who must feed his hatchlings) and might include some conflict later in the story, but right now I don't envision a particular theme or character developmental arc for the whole project. It's essentially a prose equivalent to the opening scene in Disney's Dinosaur.
Has anyone ever felt like this? Has anyone pictured a scene or character and wanted to write that down, but somehow couldn't be bothered to expand that into a complete novel? I don't know what to call the kind of moment-based writing I've just described, but I really wish there was a market for it!
Has anyone ever felt like this? Has anyone pictured a scene or character and wanted to write that down, but somehow couldn't be bothered to expand that into a complete novel? I don't know what to call the kind of moment-based writing I've just described, but I really wish there was a market for it!