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Helloeveryone. I'm RoxanneGay, your guest host for theweek.
Welcome to Radio Headspace and welcome toWednesday.
This week we're talking about creative expression and today I want to talk to you about how I take a creative project from start tofinish.
Because even though you may not be awriter, my process or at least parts of it can be applied to all kinds of artisticforms.
So today I'll break down how Iprep, outline and write a book and I'll give you a few ideas on how to think about your own creativeproject.
All of mybooks, all of my long form projects and even my essays start withquestions.
And I tend to write those questions down or really type them down on my handwriting'satrocious.
And start to do research to answer thosequestions.
And as I doresearch, new questions are going toarise.
And so I assemble hopefully an interesting body of knowledge to sit with to read from and to figureout, okay now what is it that Ihave?
What is it that I have tosay?
And so after questions andresearch, I start to create a broad outline of what it is that I want tosay, what I actuallybelieve.
And sometimes I'm actually writing my way toward answers instead of having the answers from theoutset.
But I do like to have a rough sense of where I'm going to begin and where I'm going toend.
When I was writing my memoirHunger, I certainly dragged my heels for avery, very long time and procrastinated and then I wrote it very quickly after thinking veryslowly.
But withHunger, I wanted to do twothings.
I wanted to write a memoir of my body and the subtitle of the book is actually a memoir of mybody.
And so that gave me an organizingprinciple.
When I'm actually writing abook, the challenge for me is to get intoit.
But once I get intoit, I'm intoit.
I write for hours and hours aday.
When I wrote my first novel in UntamedState, I was writing for like 10 hours or more a day because it was in the summer after my first year ofteaching.
And I knew that that was the only time I was going to have to get a draft of the noveldone.
And Idid. I'm not really great as a writer about managingdistractions.
I don't put people onnotice.
I've never done a residency or taken real timeaway.
I would like to try that someday because I think it would be very fruitful forme.
But I just make thetime.
And so I wouldwrite, I'm a knightwriter.
Only old people will get thatjoke.
But I love to write atnight.
And so after workafter, youknow, dealing with live partner at thetime, etcetera, I would just sit down and write until the wee hours of themorning.
And so really the way I manage distractions was to write when everyone else wasasleep.
And the thing that's painful is gettingstarted, figuring out how to start finding the motivation to actuallystart.
But once Istart, I don't quit till I'mdone.
And I love that part where I'm just writing and writing andwriting.
I know that I'll reviselater, but I'll have something torevise.
And so the generative process is veryfun.
My best piece of advice for taking on a big project is to break it down into more manageablesections.
When you sit down and think I have to write anovel, I have to produce analbum, I have to create anopera.
It's incredibly overwhelming when you think of the creativeproduct, the creative output as awhole.
But, and this is what you know what I've done with all of my bookprojects, like I don't know how to write abook, but I do know how to write achapter.
And so oftentimes I would tellmyself,okay, I'm going to work on this chaptertoday.
And that gave me the space to make the creative project far more manageable and thinkthat,okay, I can get thisdone.
The biggest problem people tend to encounter in large creative projects is timemanagement, figure it out when it's actually going to getdone.
And ofcourse,confidence.
I think that we tendto, especially in the middle of that kind ofproject, start to lose the face a littlebit, start to lose a sense of where weare, where we'regoing, how we're going to getthere.
And that can be reallychallenging, which is why it can be helpful to have at least a bit of a blueprint for how you're going to achieve thisthing.
Okay, that's all fortoday.
Tomorrow is my last day hosting radio headspace and we'll wrap up the week by talking about creativeblocks, something I have definitely faced as awriter.
I'll see you back herethen.
