writing as a skeptical act

[zenithblue]

The other thing I'm remembering (after a hiatus from regular writing which now has endured about six months, due to application/acceptance/moving/etc.) is that writing, at least in the early stages, at least for me, is nothing more than a pure skeptical act. I mean skepticism in its classic sense, which calls upon the thinker to suspend both belief

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[blozor]

What I love about your posts about writing is how very well written they are. It's humbling to be in the presence of someone who truly has the gift as opposed to a bumbling hack like myself. Although, I do want to get back into actual story writing, but first I need to do some reorganization with my belongings so I don't feel so suffocated. Maybe in a month or two I'll have the presence of mind to start back up.

A couple more songs that may help invigorate you. The Whitesnake song instantly made me think of this first one, called "Nothin's Gonna Stand In Our Way."

While listening to that, I automatically thought of a song by Simple Minds called "Great Leap Forward." I find it damn near impossible to be depressed while listening to Simple Minds.

Both songs will be available for your downloading and listening pleasure for a limited time, defined as "until I decide to allocate the server space for something else."

[zenithblue]

Oh wow...I'm really liking that Simple Minds song. I don't think I've ever heard their stuff before. I know you've recommended them before...a particular album I should look for?

I think you may be once again selling your own attention to craft short...do you have a laptop? If you do it might be worth taking it out away from your clutter. Clutter, in my experience, is a great excuse to avoid sitting down to work...but then again, you're not ready until you're ready. You should watch a bunch of Millenium--last time you talked about writing fiction it was because you were re-watching it.

Oh, by the way, you win for most fucked up icon I've seen today.

Music good...feeling more like performing a training montage than writing...

[blozor]

I know you've heard at least one Simple Minds song. They performed the song "Don't You (Forget About Me)" for the movie The Breakfast Club, which was their only #1 hit in America, although they still remain fairly big internationally. Of course, that wasn't written by them, and was first offered to Brian Ferry, who turned it down, and was in consideration for U2 if Simple Minds turned it down. Frontman Jim Kerr even resented it at first because it wasn't their original song and refused to include it on any album until a 1992 greatest hits album.

"Great Leap Forward" came from Good News From The Next World which was a bit heavier and guitar rock-oriented album for them. I enjoy it for the most part. I really liked Neapolis which was darker and more ambient, and their latest Black and White, which has so far not been released in North America. Every album has at least a few good songs on it, though. Not every album is going to be as hard as Good News; they are at the core an Eighties new wave pop band, only really talented, highly

[zenithblue]

I think your long reply went through in spite of your computer's sass-mouth.

Wow, okay. Totally didn't identify them with "those dudes who did the Breakfast Club theme" but it makes sense. Adding to library holds list now...

[blozor]

Yeah, I deleted that one by the time you responded to it. I didn't think my first one went through. This seems to happen every year around this time. I can't wait for LJ to fix their shit. It takes, like, two minutes for each page to load, and theirs is the only website where it does that.