Logical Flaws in Creative Flows…
Creative Writing is not just about creative thoughts but there are strong logical foundations behind that creative formation. The facade is backed by logical ground, well set to take the weight of the creative power that gets unleashed.
Creativity is about connecting the dots…the seemly unrelated dots and certainly the unsettled thoughts.
“It is scrambled.”
“It is a puzzled.”
It is a task on hand. We have to apply our logic to give the scrambled the shape and the puzzle the space. The shape and space give the place to unleash our creative flows. Any flaws in the logical grouping can dismantle the organized space and fundamentally affect the formation of desired shape.
Stories have a structure.
Stories have a strategy.
Stories have a system.
Every story is a crafty combination of all these factors.
A balanced combination. It is never easy to factor these factors. Though stories are flow of creative thoughts but creativity needs a stream to flow and if the stream doesn’t have a right path it falters. The characters in stories, the story settings, the conflicts in the story is what the reader analyze, and the readers critically look for the real connect and that’s what connect with the ardent reader.
The subtle connect…
But if the reader see substantial disconnect in any form within the story…and it could be a mismatched age of the character, wrong period in the story, even subtle aberrations or perhaps very conspicuous in form, it immediately takes the reader off guard. As a writer it is our duty to guard their interest, so that our readership is safeguarded.
Along with the simple language, the strong logic behind the story what really matters in the ultimate count… Even with amazing creativity, the flaw in logic can create a disconnect and fissure can lead to the collapse of the structure, before the strategy and system could do anything.
The simple choice of word to complex formation of sentences, the definite arrangement of paragraph definitely needs the formation of logic just not the flowery language. The flower will fade, but if nurtured well will bear fruit. We can use ornate language but if there is no obvious logic, it just doesn’t flow and we are dead stuck.
It is not easy to balance the sequencing of logic and sentencing of language.
After all the emotions behind the thoughts and the emotive power in the story that makes the writing lively and we all attempt to read between the lines and behind the words.
“Visible is not exciting.”
“Apparent is boring.”
“Hidden is what draws us.”
“Inscrutable is what drives us.”
The unwritten context in the story is as important as the written text. The logical flaw in the context can make the text look awfully wretched. The logic behind the story is the heart though the art resides in how we narrate and negate the irrationality.
Creative Writing needs researching the reasoning, appreciating the human reasoning process, understanding the cognitive science, the science behind our thinking…there is a strong science behind the art of writing.
Writing is just not about creative engagement but also about the logical arrangement.
It may rhyme but engagement and arrangement are fundamentally different. Engagement is on the emotional front and arrangement is on the physical fashion.
Creativity takes solid ground when backed with strong logical reasoning. With a strong logical foundation, creativity fly and playing with both end of the spectrum of our thinking…on one end is the creative thinking and on the other end is the logical thinking that makes the playground more exciting. We can experiment. Experiment with different combinations and options to see what more can be offered and offered to excite and ignite the reader’s mind.
Every story has a common thread running throughout the story-line.
Every story has a puzzle to be solved and placed in proper order.
Every story has a pattern.
Pattern formations are beautiful to watch.
Every story has a combination of people, the place and the text and the context.
Unless these are stitched with strong thoughts and sized with clinical precision, the grip will be lost and the fit will be an issue. The reader will straight away feel the slack and then the flaws are there for all of us to witness. The fizz is out of the bottle. Stories are designed to possess the grip, when it has the prefect fit. The formation of characters needs creativity and the building of conflict needs the rationality, any irregularities in the formation or building hits the reader hard, as he ventures with the aim of a soft tour and hardly he can withstand the logical disconnect.
Creativity is about forming such magical combination from unrelated dots left for the creative people to capture and create their patterns. And it is indeed a puzzle to resolve, that’s how creative thoughts wear the logical threads to tell a tale.
Logic can take us so far but imagination can take us everywhere.
But to come back from these flights of imagination to put those visualization into words need that logical arrangement of events and eventually it is the logic behind the creativity that matters the most.
Though it is all about creativity…
Any flaw in our logical flow of thoughts that goes into the formation of creative writing can destroy the beauty behind the story.
Logic counts and creativity flows…
Your ability to write about the subject of Creative Writing really boggles my mind. I would need 8 hours to write a single short paragraph on this topic!
At the outset thank you so much for your wonderful words of appreciation. We all can write brilliant stuff, only that we don;t find the right frame of mind and time, all of our individual stories are so powerful, it is just that we don’t feel like expressing, and once we do, we all have great things to share…
Have a lovely weekend.
I am looking forward to seeing your side of creative story and it will be brilliant…
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Very engaging facts you have mentioned. Well put points and of course even if creativity sports from imagination, it’s the logic which aligns it aptly to give it a conducive form…
Yes, we get swayed by the creative side and miss out on the logic, the balance and the connect is what makes the real difference…
Thanks so much and have a lovely weekend.
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Another thoughtful post, Nihar. Creativity needs logic to flourish, and how ironic is it that definition of the two is paradoxical. “Stories have a structure. Stories have a strategy. Stories have a system.” You did well on the alliteration front yet again,
Often, captivating and meaningful stories have a beginning and an end. Indeed a system, a system whereby we can impart stories and lessons to our readers with much more efficiency. Agreed every story has a puzzle to be solved, and it really is exciting as a reader to be led on towards the end through chapters and a believable storyline.
Engagement vs arrangement. Never thought of that, a very interesting thought. Arrangement, perhaps it can be thought of as how we structure our stories and writing, how we choose to put certain scenes before others – in other words the big picture of the overall story. Engagement, perhaps that can be thought of weaving, as you said, emotion into words, perhaps through metaphors, symbolism and imagery to hook the reader in.
Hope you have a good weekend, Nihar. It’s going to be a busy one for me. You take care 😀
You are right Mabel, somehow we discount the significance of logic when we are doing creative writing. We get immersed in the creative thoughts and the logic gets left over and as we get to the big picture we start seeing various missing links and then we start focusing on logic. Both logic and creative thinking has to go hand in hand while writing a story, though creativity predominates the flow but undermining the logical flaw can be a disaster, it can instant disconnect and reader shall not proceed further withe flaws…
Emotions and combination with right choice of words, so that it captures and reflects the true feelings and describes the exact atmosphere of the scene is what makes a huge difference in how we present our story line…
Yes, Dec lot of things to happen there, I understand you must be very busy and take care and have a wonderful weekend.
Have been really tied up and sorry for not able to spend time on your posts, pending from my side and will catch up soon.
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Creativity is directly proportional to logical thinking. Without the strong foundation of logic, the edifice of creativity is never possible to build. You’ve nicely explained it, as always, Nihar… 🙂
Have a happy weekend… 😀
Indeed you are right, logic is the foundation and the fundamentals are built on logic and creativity produces and forms the ideas, the thoughts but stitching them together needs the threads of logic…
You too have a lovely weekend.
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Well said Nihar. A creative facade is always backed by logical ground.
Logic is needed to connect the dots, channelize creativity, give it a direction, convey the emotions in words and develop a sound story. Clarity of thinking and reasoning are needed to decide what to say, how much to say and what is best left unsaid.
Logic and creativity must go hand in hand to create a story that interests, engages and convinces the readers.
Enjoy the weekend.
It so happens that with the overarching creative thoughts that keep coming and clouding our mind, we get swayed to whole idea of creative writing but within the story lies the real story, the logic behind the creative idea, stitching the creative thoughts needs the logical thread to be put in place.
I agree Somali, it is about the clarity of thinking and reasoning are so important in writing and more so in creative writing.
Have been really tied up last couple of weeks for various work, not able to visit your posts, will do it soon…
Have a wonderful Sunday.
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Do you think learning the ‘logic’ is really completely possible, or do you think a person has to have a knack (talent) for it?
I wrestle with the ‘logic’ of writing a story and often find myself losing the battle because I can’t possible find all the blunders I’ve made. I’m going to have to rely on critique groups, beta readers, and editors. Of course, this isn’t a bad thing. It’s just a step in the process.
I understand it is not easy and logical thinking and creative thinking doesn’t go hand in hand, these are opposite side of the spectrum. I also equally find it tough to strike a balance and find a common meeting ground. I think it comes with practice and more practice, we start seeing things and patterns which helps us to organize the logic of story in place without diluting the creative composition.
Thanks so much for staying by and have a wonderful week ahead.
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When I walk (or stagger) into my office early some mornings my next character, or my last, will be waiting for me there; and their very presence will mean there is a story to tell. Other times the room will be empty. Sorry, let me explain: I begin with the story, because at end of all, we have a tale to tell. If my characters are close enough to me to be real, we will talk, and the prose will flow. My characters give me the story and I must write it, immediately, because it, and they, will escape if I do not.
On my empty office mornings I will dig out what I have written. The spelling will be horrible, the repetitions many fold, because I type too quickly in a storm. I will work through and correct, and manipulate, and smooth my pace, slice up my alliterations, pattern my sentences, smudge over my mixed metaphors, and, once in a while I will realize something I have written doesn’t work.
Then I have two options: I can work out the disparities, or I can ‘archive’. Quite often I will elect to take the latter course, but even then the effort will not have been in vain. I will break up what I have done and reuse bits of it in later pieces. I cannot describe this process as logical, in fact the reverse, but I cannot allow logic to come between me and my reader.
I fully endorse your views, logic should be allowed to come between us and the reader, creativity, the flow, the thoughts, the characters what really matters. In fact it is the character that defines and decides how the story pans out, it is character even in a weak plot can stand out, it is character which we remember for long, it is the question of how much we are close to the character and how effortlessly we craft the characteristics of the character. How real and how much we relate makes the difference between a good and a great character.
Yes, it is all there around us and it depends on how we look at life and things, there is hidden story in each such object and subject we keep dealing and facing on our daily walk of life. We make mistake and we commit blunders and we learn from each such mistake and life goes forward and we move on our story line with each such events and happenings in life.
Nothing is lost in writing, everything is gained in writing, it may not be upto mark and it may not be upto our expectation but in the end every such writing gives a better insight into the nuances of good writing and how to write better…
Thanks so much for such an insightful and stirring thought.
Top notch …immensely intriguing and
this really brought out the camaraderie very well.
Logic and creativity are two faces of a coin..ineffectual without each other
Yes, when we do creative writing, understandably we get focused on the creative side, but logic has its own significance and it shouldn’t be undermined in the creative zest…
Yes and that creativity will always be fruitful
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Wow – I love all the information and your thoughts about creative writing 😊 thank you for sharing
My pleasure and than you so much for staying by and words of appreciation…
Have a lovely Sunday…
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