Darn upgrades, anyway!! Yes, that certainly happens. But there's the weird blind spots where, when you know a topic, your brain just never goes there in the first place. "Birds would never do that!" is where Hitchcock got the shock value. "Cars don't do that!" is another. So I'm thinking that some types of writers go hunting for those spots in the minds of ordinary readers, and exploit them. (Horror not being the only example, but an obvious one.) What about the writer's own peculiar ones? So I'm wondering how you get to noticing those. Writing workshops are no guarantee, but that's how I noticed that one.
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Date: 2008-02-19 03:03 pm (UTC)Yes, that certainly happens.
But there's the weird blind spots where, when you know a topic, your brain just never goes there in the first place.
"Birds would never do that!" is where Hitchcock got the shock value.
"Cars don't do that!" is another.
So I'm thinking that some types of writers go hunting for those spots in the minds of ordinary readers, and exploit them. (Horror not being the only example, but an obvious one.)
What about the writer's own peculiar ones?
So I'm wondering how you get to noticing those.
Writing workshops are no guarantee, but that's how I noticed that one.