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Ellen Klages

Writer

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My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context. Ellen Klages

Character Battle Single Down Starts Fragments Paper Bits Run Something Names Ideas Messy Context Dialogue Lines False Get Doodle Anything Process Sentences Full Suddenly Now Need

I've come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, 'What if?' Ellen Klages

Tools Alike Both Through Driven Come Answer Scientists Go Question What If Same Artists Different Processes Realize Using

When I write, I try to capture one of those pivotal moments. If I succeed, I have shifted the reader's view of the world, just a little. The character is not the only one to experience change. That is my job, shifting perceptions, one story at a time. The trouble is, I don't like writing. But I love having written. Ellen Klages

Love Time Character Change Experience Writing World Try Job Trouble Shifting Those Perceptions Having Only Write Written Like Reader Shifted Just Pivotal Story Little Succeed View Moments Capture

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