Train steadily, and with a good heart. Train to thrive in those places where you are overwhelmed. Then, seek new places in which to be overwhelmed. Repeat the process.
In this manner, all will be cared for.
Category: Musings
Echo-A Dystopian Science Fiction Novel
Buying gifts for my niece. Whoa, the newest My Little Pony is out; these go for thousands on eBay. There’s one left. I buy it. I’m walking away. Suddenly I hear a chorus of malevolent hissing. I turn: A legion of toy-coveting Bronies have morphed into Gollums, and they’re charging at me in an all-fours gallop. In panic, I drop my eReader (open to Echo, of course), and it flashes with magic. My right fist is glowing-my eyes widen in amazement, then steel over. I punch the floor, and an earth-shattering ripple undulates outward, defeating the wave of fell creatures.
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Musings
Attune to that divine, heroic frequency; the one that recognizes our creaturely trappings and uses them to manifest godly wonders of the imagination.
Musings
The literary structure of a story is like the strong, silent skeleton of a house; those bones will help to prop your tale in place. But without the daring curves and eye-dazzling splashes born from style, that house lays squat and dark, stolid and forgotten.
Writing must be understood, but even more than that, it must be FELT.
Musings
Go so deep into your story that you realize it’s a parallel reality, one among many. That’s when it writes itself. But first, you have to be willing to go deep.
(watch out for madness)
Musings
Chew thought carefully, hone spirit diligently, and realizations drip onto the page like jeweled blades.
Musings
I think life may resemble most peoples 20s: Sit down, have a drink, a good time, and then sleep it off. Do it again.
The next time around, the majority will find a nicer bar. The (lucky?) ones with a lower tolerance will find a fulfilling calling.
Musings
There’s survival benefits to conformity: When humans were in constant danger, pack-thinking was advantageous. But we no longer need only be reactive brutes, and IMHO, evolutionary advantage is sliding towards those out-of-the-box thinkers that rebel against tradition for comfort’s sake.
That makes the Majority predictably uncomfortable, so if you have the courage to be weird, and you are one of the blessed strange, then I wish you the best. Good luck. 🙂
Musings
IMHO, the true value of being able to “write on command” is not self-expression, or wandering into the mind’s fabulous realms. It is looking at the everyday experiences of life-what others consider mundanity and junk-and being able to reach in that “trash pile” and pull out polished riches. As a writer, you knew that those gems of wonder, horror, and wisdom were there all along, all you did was train yourself to look.
In a sense, you’re like a mental Macgyver. Actually, I prefer Batman. 😉
Musings
While deliberation plays a part in great endeavors, I believe that those bright flashes of inspiration are not meant to be hoarded. Better an imperfect expression of art than one that’s constantly picked over and never expressed at all. While hassling the details is important, it is procrastination, IMHO, that’s a far more prevalent and deadly thing than misplaced minutiae.
At least one minute, one SECOND even, must be given to the pursuit of one’s chosen craft on a daily basis. While results may be inconsistent, effort must never be.
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