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Originally posted by Richard Wakefield:
You're probably right, although it could help in the understanding of the part that patterns and forms play in the creative process. Richard Moore has a fine essay called "The Form that Liberates" in which he claims, more or less (and among other things), that form can be a heuristic. We already knew it can be a mnemonic. Maybe such a program could reveal forms of which the writer isn't altogether aware.
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Richard,
There may be some writers who operate on that conscious cerebral level but I suspect that most gifted writers are too busy experiencing these patterns in an instinctive way. It's true a writer may analyse his/her own experiences during writing, as Richard Moore appears to have done. Because it's Richard Moore I would love to read that essay. Because of the "primeval" element I tend to believe that such form is experienced rather than consciously learned. Of course, having experienced it a writer may then consciously repeat it. I doubt if it's possible to write well on such a conscious level without having had the experience first.
I may very well be wrong about this.
Janet