Mine, was non-existent... But with the kiddies back to school tomorrow, I should get straight back into it. Can't wait.
Mine, was non-existent... But with the kiddies back to school tomorrow, I should get straight back into it. Can't wait.
I've had a good week. Airport lounges are a great place to write, in a kind of transit limbo at 2am, with the notebook computer across your lap, a large malt to my right & three hours to kill. Hemingway apparently, ( and somewhat unkindly commented upon) was inclinded to take a new wife every time he ventured on a new book. Seems rather excessive to me.
I've currently got two bits on the go:
A novel called "Murder in Accra" after getting immersed in Raymond Chandler, Dashell Hammett & John Buchan.
A series of short stories called "The Portals of Sluttish Time", mainly involving steamy love affairs in different countries that always stick in your mind. I find it theraputic to quickly & honestly get it down on paper & then edit accordingly.
I've had a very good writing week. I composed a poem, and I have worked on a short story in which I an collaborating with another wrtiter. I'm in the process of going back over the poems I've composed in the last forty years and revising them. This is something that may take me years to do.
...grand, aye!
Last edited by wlz; 02-05-2010 at 04:17 PM.
"Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis".
I have a strange question, but maybe a member would be kind enough to pick up on it for me to help me in my research: I am writing a story about an assault that happened to me, but based the main character on a dead woman who I knew very briefly and liked, and might have stayed friends with if her disease had not been so progressive, and the disease in question rarely is, but her genes made it mortal. I stuck her in Chicago for the main part of the action, and yes, I surfed for this and that over the years, but I don't know the city, and was wondering if anyone could tell me about neighborhoods there under significant economic stress that I could stick her in when her condition worsens?
I don't really like discussing my work online, but I would like to give Chicago a kind of thematic resonance, which is why I picked it, and it would not be reasonable for me to visit for a story that will probably not land a home easily.
So far it's a slow week for writing on my part. Still in the process of editing my first novel. Which is a huge task (in my eyes) that I'm undergoing in minute, bitesize innings.
I need to get back into doing game reviews again. It's been a while and I need to keep loose...
My writing week has been going very well. It tends to go better when I stay away from the internet, regular jobs, drink, music and the shower.
"Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis".
On of my peculiarities and difficulties as a writer is that I won't discard anything. I have heard this is unprofessional and that it is a weakness of the amateur not to be able to tell when his stuff is not coming off. But I can't overlook the fact that I had a reason, a feeling, for starting to write it, and I'll be damned if I won't beat it.
Non-existant. I should put those paint brushes down and spend a day writing... I miss it.
As you mature you'll toss it, eventuallyOriginally Posted by MANICHAEAN
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What the hell is this?Beatniks died out in the 80's Admin, if or when you're lurking about...
I wrote nothing this week, but continued to absorb/read and reflect a bit. I find I'm getting like a battery being charged. I've got one of those contracts: two months work, then 18 days off. So I alternate between reading in the former during whatever little spare time I can attain & actually writing in the latter.
Robert Louis Stevenson wrotethat "Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life." So true.
Manichaean
Last edited by prendrelemick; 03-02-2010 at 04:03 PM.
Manichaean Have you ever been completely satisfied with the end result?
I got my short story out again. I have been 5 years writing a short story, ( not constantly, you understand) and I can't get the first paragraph right. So every couple of months I get it out and change it, then 2 months later change it back. I'm going for impact and explanation, can you do both at once?
Last edited by prendrelemick; 03-02-2010 at 04:02 PM.
Very good thanks, 4 poems and happy with all over them.
Confusing mostly, I didn't write much last week, but what I did write was just plain and uninteresting.
There is no darkness, there is no light, there is only Lasagne!
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