It's also interesting to look at the similar case with films... David Lynch films without a script, or in any case without much of a script. However, films (with the exception of Rope) are shot out of order and edited heavily anyway (probably significantly more heavily than books -- even fairly stable and structured films typically change significantly from script to shot to cut; Big Trouble In Little China in script form was a western, King Kong was originally planned as a documentary-style film about gorillas, and the macguffins in Repo Man and Pulp Fiction were famously last-minute additions either constructed or changed during filming), and so if you're willing to throw out a lot of film you can play fast and loose with plotting and construct a new story with out of context footage later, which is more difficult with the written word. When I write, I write sort of like the way David Lynch shoots a TV show: I get an idea, I write out the scene involving that idea, I release a collection of these scenes in some semblance of order, and I hope I can tie together the elements into a plot and work out continuity errors later on.
]]>That's a pretty compelling and vivid message from the subconscious!
Temp jobs and "proper" jobs have different advantages. Either way, enabling you to stay alive, that has to be a good thing. Meeting people, even if they're just pointy-haired managers... But to go beyond survival - how creatively can you identify ways to be creative?
Good luck...
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