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Back in August I said this.
This is going to be a regularly (hopefully) updated collection of words and images that strike my fancy.
I really want to start writing again on a regular basis.
5 months later...
I tell you a soul sucking job does not help one's creative flow.
I was reading the start of Hanging out with the Dream King and the author asked Neil Gaiman how important is the connection with the audience. His response: "It's all important, because if it's not there you're masturbating." Crude but I can't argue the point.
I need the audience. The need for approval or rather I need to know if someone's reading it. I can't do this in a vacuum.
The ideas are there nebulous, unformed. I don't know what their stories are, and I can't know unless I tell them to someone. I know the Island ship atlantis has been sailing for 10,000 years but I don't know who's on it or why. What does the Wild King rule? Two days ago I woke up having the vaguest memories of story I dreamt featuring someone named Jack Cross or Jack of the Cross. I know he has a story to tell, but again I dont know what it is yet.
The physical act of writing isn't easy for me. The desk I use isn't quite right.
I need readers. Not people to critique, well not necessarily, just people to read what I've written, and to kick my ass if I haven't written in a while. To say they read it. They liked it or not that's all.
My goal is to have something written every week to start. Not a complete story but something, a paragraph or two, just so I have something.
Will you help me?
This is going to be a regularly (hopefully) updated collection of words and images that strike my fancy.
I really want to start writing again on a regular basis.
5 months later...
I tell you a soul sucking job does not help one's creative flow.
I was reading the start of Hanging out with the Dream King and the author asked Neil Gaiman how important is the connection with the audience. His response: "It's all important, because if it's not there you're masturbating." Crude but I can't argue the point.
I need the audience. The need for approval or rather I need to know if someone's reading it. I can't do this in a vacuum.
The ideas are there nebulous, unformed. I don't know what their stories are, and I can't know unless I tell them to someone. I know the Island ship atlantis has been sailing for 10,000 years but I don't know who's on it or why. What does the Wild King rule? Two days ago I woke up having the vaguest memories of story I dreamt featuring someone named Jack Cross or Jack of the Cross. I know he has a story to tell, but again I dont know what it is yet.
The physical act of writing isn't easy for me. The desk I use isn't quite right.
I need readers. Not people to critique, well not necessarily, just people to read what I've written, and to kick my ass if I haven't written in a while. To say they read it. They liked it or not that's all.
My goal is to have something written every week to start. Not a complete story but something, a paragraph or two, just so I have something.
Will you help me?