Sunday Scribblings Make up post-"The Books that I would Write" prompt
The Books I want to Write
I'm already working on some of them, bit by bit, piece by piece, as the characters talk to me. There was a time when I worried a little about sounding crazy saying that I could hear the things that my characters want me to write, but I've come to understand that other writers do the same thing, and most of them are writers whose work I love and respect. My characters don't always talk to me all at once and sometimes, I can go weeks at a time without hearing from them. They get drained from time to time, I suppose, and they need a vacation, just like anyone else. So, on any given day, there might be an elven warrior, a post-apocalyptic drifter, a firefighter, a construction worker, and a landscape designer, or another character who decides that I need to get a little bit more down on the page.
I would like to make art books, too, beautiful, heavy coffee-table books full of gorgeous pictures that I didn't take. I've got the concepts written down and some of them are sprinkled throughout this blog. The problem is, I'm not a photographer. I tried learning some basic principles of photography, but mostly, I can take passable pictures that would be okay in family albums. The book that featured guys I in their favorite jeans and t-shirts (preferably barefoot), I could maybe take some of the pictures for, but even then, I'm probably a much better candidate for providing text and explanations and extolling the virtues of how sexy a guy can be when he's comfortable and not having to fret with looking presentable.
I'd love to find someone who could help me turn some story ideas into comic books or animation because it would really be a thrill to see something I worked on being committed to a different type of media that I dearly love. I'd want to be part of that process, just so I could see how it worked first hand.
I don't want to write the Great American Novel, not by any stretch of the imagination. What I do want to write is material that will get published, that people will really enjoy, and that they will buy. I want to write things that will keep me in a career as a writer, more than anything else.
I'm already working on some of them, bit by bit, piece by piece, as the characters talk to me. There was a time when I worried a little about sounding crazy saying that I could hear the things that my characters want me to write, but I've come to understand that other writers do the same thing, and most of them are writers whose work I love and respect. My characters don't always talk to me all at once and sometimes, I can go weeks at a time without hearing from them. They get drained from time to time, I suppose, and they need a vacation, just like anyone else. So, on any given day, there might be an elven warrior, a post-apocalyptic drifter, a firefighter, a construction worker, and a landscape designer, or another character who decides that I need to get a little bit more down on the page.
I would like to make art books, too, beautiful, heavy coffee-table books full of gorgeous pictures that I didn't take. I've got the concepts written down and some of them are sprinkled throughout this blog. The problem is, I'm not a photographer. I tried learning some basic principles of photography, but mostly, I can take passable pictures that would be okay in family albums. The book that featured guys I in their favorite jeans and t-shirts (preferably barefoot), I could maybe take some of the pictures for, but even then, I'm probably a much better candidate for providing text and explanations and extolling the virtues of how sexy a guy can be when he's comfortable and not having to fret with looking presentable.
I'd love to find someone who could help me turn some story ideas into comic books or animation because it would really be a thrill to see something I worked on being committed to a different type of media that I dearly love. I'd want to be part of that process, just so I could see how it worked first hand.
I don't want to write the Great American Novel, not by any stretch of the imagination. What I do want to write is material that will get published, that people will really enjoy, and that they will buy. I want to write things that will keep me in a career as a writer, more than anything else.