Benjamin David Geddert

Writer. Actor. Artist.
Making Beautiful Art Makes Life Beautiful.

[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

If I promise not to use the word "just" in my next two stories, can I keep all the justs I've used in this one?

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

My readers are wrong! They're wrong! It's not melodramatic! The characters are finally tuned. The subtlety is just too complex for them.

Rereading draft a couple months later: Oh.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Vehemently dislike half the dialogue I've ever written: the words, the phrasing, the rhythm...

But then again I also dislike and want to rewrite half the dialogue in major award winning works so what do I know?

Anyway, back to the desk.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Four steps forward. Two to the left. A jump south-west. A scooch right. And six steps backwards.

Ah. Writing.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

How important is it to you to come up with unique metaphors in your work? How important is it to say something someone had never quite said the same way before?

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Writing Truth: When I edit I have a harder time leaving a sentence untouched than I do changing it. Can't quite trust myself to have gotten it correct the first time around.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Why can't my characters just want to say the things I want them to say?

Why do they have to make it is difficult and then make it sound so off when I force it down their throats anyway?

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Typos aren't all created equally - such as when your character breaks down "in a rush of emotion, tears ... And humping honesty"

Edit your work folks.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

My growing inability to waste a day away watching football for hours on end is how I know I'm getting older.

[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Writing is the best.

All your hopes and dreams, all your passions, all your insecurities and vulnerabilities all neatly contained in a little 8.5x11 rectangle.

[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Attempting to pull back the melodrama without losing all the tension is really just a great deal of fun. It's not frustrating at all. Look. I'm smiling. Obviously that means I'm happy.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

If I write this scene a hundred times I'm bound to like at least one of them.

Right?

Please say I'm right.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

The more time I spend during the day writing the less time there is to worry about whether what I'm writing is actually any good.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

The fun bit about writing is that inevitably the lines you stress over the most are the ones your reader will gloss over and the lines that came naturally will be the ones that resonate the most.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Writing's like poker. For the vast majority of the time it's a hellhole of penny-less despair but when you're on a hot streak and the going's good, don't you dare stop. Ride that sucker until you vomit.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Alcohol doesn't much improve my writing, but it sure as hell does a swell job shutting up the inner critic.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

Once you notice that the Monster's U School anthem is identical to Monty Python's "Every Sperm is Sacred" you can't stop noticing.

[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

The fear of having forgotten a good idea by the time it is time to include it into the story is probably the biggest driving force keeping me productive.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

The fall from grace one my characters has gone through from draft to draft because the plot required it is something to behold.

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[Benjamin David Geddert @BDGeddert]

A reader talking about one of your characters as they would one from any other story feels so awesome.

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