II ULUSLARARASI ÇOCUK VE GENÇLİK EDEBİYATI SEMPOZYUMU

But these fears were not manifested just in the primary ideas for the novels. Its domain was
much broader than that.
Fear to Start: the fear to start usually happens among young writers. Many of them have interesting
ideas in mind. They have thoroughly thought about the characters and the plots. Yet they
dare not put their pen on the paper (or fingers on the keyboard). I've seen some who pitifully
tremble with fear.
To get over "the fear to start" in Experience Room, we have a good trick. We just delay the
start; it's that simple! This fear often stems from the fact that young writers - and even the experienced
ones- ask themselves whether this point is precisely the point where their story must
begin. Is this the right beginning for the story? Is this sentence - as the most important sentence
of the novel - has enough energy to arouse my readers’ interest? ... We have made work simple
in Experience Room:
we have postponed the time when the writer starts to write the beginning of his story to a more
appropriate time, when the author is in the right mood to write. Because what is more important
in Experience Room is that the young writers dare to write, dare to start writing their story, to
start writing their story is more important than the start of the story.
This start might be a stage in the middle of the novel, or even the end of the novel, or a scene
that the author himself does not know where exactly in the novel it belongs. Yet this scene with
its adventures, events and atmosphere and with all its words are in the author’s mind, so it is
much the better if they are immediately put on the paper, and set the author at ease.
"Tajik" is the story of a character with a puzzling structure. Tajik is the teenage character of the
novel, a mysterious and strange personality, who all at once emerged in the story and life of its
narrator. The author of the story, a 22-year-old youth, had a clear picture of this character in his
mind, but not the whole story. He greatly feared to begin the story. He thought any start will put
him and the reader away from the character of Tajik, creating misunderstanding. Experience
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