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Post for the Weekend
Mar. 29th, 2009 09:03 pmLost another hour this morning. Bloody aliens again and their missing time.
So I spent the time working on the Ro Focale story and something for S & P. I know Charlotte won't be getting anything new for this month, but Signs & Portents have four articles already. Plus, I have had a rough kind of a month.
I was told that I have a unique relationship with the weird and the wonderful. People might try to write journalistically about sorcery, magic, faith, science, the supernatural and the mundane - but they don't live it on a daily basis, as in "it's in the blood, the bone, the genes."
Some of my f'list live it on a daily basis. But they don't write.
And at least one person I know, who does write (rather well) and who does live the life on a daily basis, wouldn't write for the people I have written for anyway.
I guess that what I'm trying to say is that I can't afford to put myself down any more. I have wanted to write for many years. I can write; I am published; and if people looked closely at what I have written, they'll realise that I have a creative spark which manifests in, in effect, entirely original and new ideas, or at least in new and interesting manifestations of existing ideas and tropes.
At least I try not to use cliches, but rather to breathe vibrant life into that which I see before me. When I write about a person, I try to get a feel of what life is like inside that person's skin, looking out through their eyes. When I write about something like magic, I try to write about how it feels for that person to cast a spell.
It's not just about activating some damned superpower: I want the reader to be riding behind the eyes of a ritualist as she prepares her shrine, her implements and herself: the calm, methodical way she goes about casting a ritual spell, as a scientist sets up the equipment in her lab for an experiment. Or if the magician is of a more spontaneous kind, I want the readers to feel the flow of mana in his body as he casts the working, a current somewhat like jazz or when an artist communes with his Muse or a dancer enters the flow of her routine.
Always, I try and capture a character's perspective on life. It's how I engage the readers and, hopefully, engage their interest and desire to come back and read more.
Right. Captain Focale awaits. Laters.
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So I spent the time working on the Ro Focale story and something for S & P. I know Charlotte won't be getting anything new for this month, but Signs & Portents have four articles already. Plus, I have had a rough kind of a month.
I was told that I have a unique relationship with the weird and the wonderful. People might try to write journalistically about sorcery, magic, faith, science, the supernatural and the mundane - but they don't live it on a daily basis, as in "it's in the blood, the bone, the genes."
Some of my f'list live it on a daily basis. But they don't write.
And at least one person I know, who does write (rather well) and who does live the life on a daily basis, wouldn't write for the people I have written for anyway.
I guess that what I'm trying to say is that I can't afford to put myself down any more. I have wanted to write for many years. I can write; I am published; and if people looked closely at what I have written, they'll realise that I have a creative spark which manifests in, in effect, entirely original and new ideas, or at least in new and interesting manifestations of existing ideas and tropes.
At least I try not to use cliches, but rather to breathe vibrant life into that which I see before me. When I write about a person, I try to get a feel of what life is like inside that person's skin, looking out through their eyes. When I write about something like magic, I try to write about how it feels for that person to cast a spell.
It's not just about activating some damned superpower: I want the reader to be riding behind the eyes of a ritualist as she prepares her shrine, her implements and herself: the calm, methodical way she goes about casting a ritual spell, as a scientist sets up the equipment in her lab for an experiment. Or if the magician is of a more spontaneous kind, I want the readers to feel the flow of mana in his body as he casts the working, a current somewhat like jazz or when an artist communes with his Muse or a dancer enters the flow of her routine.
Always, I try and capture a character's perspective on life. It's how I engage the readers and, hopefully, engage their interest and desire to come back and read more.
Right. Captain Focale awaits. Laters.
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