Letter to Ariadna
For my unknown friend.
Hello Ariadna:
Since I don’t yet have what I promised you, I’m going to try to tell you a little about how I attempt to create the stories I try to write. Every day I’m on the hunt for ideas, and when they come, they’re not all exciting — but every so often you find one that’s reasonably good, and that one might turn out to be only a tiny fragment of the whole story. Some days I was inspired and it was easy for me to think of something and then write the scene. Just like that. Something would come into my head and I’d say to myself: “That’s the scene I want to write” — so I’d write it. And nothing more. Then, days later, an idea for another scene would come to me, completely unrelated to the first; it would excite me and I’d write it down. A little later still, another idea would arrive, it would excite me again, and I’d write that one too. By that point I had three scenes with absolutely nothing to do with each other. Luckily there is something called a Unifying Field, capable of connecting them. One day it happens that I get an idea I like that brings the three earlier ones together. At that moment, the fourth becomes something that gives the outline of a screenplay, and once I have everything connected in that way, I write the full script and begin adding the additional scenes, adapting as I go.
Carlos