Yes my 1st blog wasn't that great however I feel that this blog area will be my voice for things that either confuse me, irritate me or just simply things that are on my mind. Today for example, I've been staring blankly at the script I'm trying to write, trying to think of how to continue it and make it gripping and instead I find myself thinking about things from my childhood I miss. Things like colouring book, playing with toy cars and eating certain food. When is ...
I, and I asume most people, have a varied music taste and my ipod reflects this, as it varies from KISS to Phantom of the Opera soundtrack (both original stage cast and movie, thank you) but it was only the other day that I discovered that I was becoming a slave to the rythems of the songs that were being fed into my ears. I noticed that when a very hard and fast paced song comes on, I walk in a fast aggressive manner and totally the opposite when a slow sober song comes on. My ipod ...
“Man may be, in a figurative sense, in prison but he has also been given a large bunch of keys and several files. The fundamental and undeniable fact about the imagination is that its purpose is to intensify the life in man.” So wrote the prolific English writer Colin Wilson (1931-).(1) His book is, he says, “a study of the inaccuracies of the imagination, because the inaccuracies of different imaginations tend to cancel one another out, and what is left is a perception ...
Updated 02-25-2012 at 06:52 AM by RonPrice (to add some words)
It's advice I've been given over and over again. I desperately want to write what I know creatively. I want to share my life in fiction or even memoir form, but I'm always afraid that the reality of things will come out in my words - that people will recognize the parallels between my reality and my writing. I'm embarrassed by it, I'm plagued by it. When I write about the mean things "that man" said to "that girl," will my father recognize his own words to my mother? ...
Up until a few months ago, everything I've written was simply written from the beginning of the story until I couldn't write any more. I didn't have any notes on the book, any character sheets, place descriptions, who is who, what is what. I just wrote. For the past couple months I've been compiling information into a file on my computer. It contains cities and their respective culture, wandering tribes and their gods, people, politics, different gods and religions across the land, ...
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