{"id":17037,"date":"2019-01-06T10:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T09:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/?p=17037"},"modified":"2019-01-06T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T09:28:28","slug":"inside-creative-writing-with-robert-olen-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/?p=17037","title":{"rendered":"Inside Creative Writing, with Robert Olen Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Art does not come from the mind, art comes from the place where you dream. And in a sense then, I\u2019m welcoming you into my dream. (\u2026) I want you to see the whole process as it happens, in real time. (Robert Olen Butler)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/butler.jpg\" width=\"1424\" height=\"1116\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A series in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLTCv6n1whoI23GmdBZienRW0Q0nFCU_ay\">seventeen instalments<\/a> of approx. 2 hrs each, made by Robert Olen Butler, and that should date back to around 2001.<\/p>\n<p>I have only started watching the very first video. So, I can\u2019t tell much except that I like the way he uses some old postcard, a little bit of googling, a map, and music, to trick himself into having something worth writing: <em>ideas are everywhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But even watching none these vids, just by looking at their sheer length (~34hrs), there is something to learn for any budding writer, and that is: <em>writing takes time<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Something that might not be that easy to understand, and to accept, in our intensely hostile to delayed-gratification culture.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I also like how he doesn\u2019t bother with fancy tools, taking notes and diving in with his word processor of choice\u2013even if I\u2019d rather use Ulysses, but that\u2019s just me being nerdy and&#8230; bothering with fancy tools \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art does not come from the mind, art comes from the place where you dream. And in a sense then, I\u2019m welcoming you into my dream. (\u2026) I want you to see the whole process as it happens, in real time. (Robert Olen Butler) A series in seventeen instalments of approx. 2 hrs each, made &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/?p=17037\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inside Creative Writing, with Robert Olen Butler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-17037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}