How to tell a story with the least amount of writing?
I love to invent stories and come up with ideas, but I don't have the patience to fill out all the details that is usually a part of a novel. (For those of you familiar with Myers-Briggs or Jungian psychology, I'm talking about the curse of the Intuitives). Said in another way, I want to design stories rather than write them.
What genre or format is the most efficient way to tell a story when you want to focus on narratives and not on prose? I would for instance assume that a screenplay takes less writing than a novel. Not necessarily less time, but less actual writing (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Just to get it straight, I realize that any story creation takes time. I just want to spend that time thinking more than writing.
This post was sourced from https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/7100. It is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
1 answer
Maybe you shouldn't be writing.
- Maybe you should be collaborating. Sketch the thing out and hire a partner, or a ghostwriter.
Short stories. Fewer words, and less need to create a world. You only need to create as much as is necessary to make the story hold up.
Tell stories out loud instead. Find a library which needs volunteers (a bit redundant, I know) and offer to set up a story hour for kids. But instead of reading, you're just extemporizing your stories. Alternately, join an improv group.
- I think we have at least one video game writer on this board — how much "writing" does a video game narrative require?
I would actually not suggest poetry, as the effort required to find le mot juste takes just as much blood, sweat, and tears as writing prose, even if there are fewer words.
0 comment threads
0 comment threads