One
of my favorite movies is UP by
Pixar. I remember looking around the
movie theater and
watching the adults cry and the kids laugh. It reached nearly everyone. The marriage montage at the beginning is
already a classic sequence. The crafting
of the story must have come easy, right?
Wrong.
Read these comments on the creation of UP from Ed Catmull, Pixar Animation
Studios President in a speech at BYU:
"The
first version of UP took place on a castle floating in the sky, and there was a
king in the castle who had two sons; the sons didn't like each other. And the
people in the castle were at war with the people on the ground, and...the two
sons happened to fall overboard and ended up wandering around in enemy
territory. And in this wandering around they came across a large bird.
"This
version of the movie didn't work; all that was left was the bird the word 'up.'
[Creativity] is a path that is filled with false turns and errors, and the
errors are a necessary part of the process."
As
I like to say, trust the process. And of course...
...Keep writing and keep living!
More tips on creativity: Double Your Creativity in 3 Hours
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