Recent content by Otter

Many of you are echoing time on this earth as a great motivator to sit down and write which is interesting to me. Most of what I end up writing might be considered metaphysical fantasy - or pseudo-science fiction. Today I wrote something which sort of relates to this theme of time and I thought...

When I joined this forum I had just come off a 2 day binge of fervent writing. I have been unable to pick up where I left off. I mentioned this in my introduction post but I have always been more or less incapable of sitting down and writing something in a deliberate way and only write as a...

Oh gosh I hadn't even considered minecraft music. C418 is one of my very favourite artists and outside of the minecraft OST's he has some truly brilliant music. I think next time I sit down to write I will have to give it a go. Checking this out now. I had no idea the way back machine...

I am new to writing so I will have to try some silence. I like the idea of writing in the small hours of the morning like Maker of Things mentioned while it's still dark even. I feel like some unobtrusive classical wouldn't be so bad. I'm not familiar with BBC Radio 3 but it sounds great

Dreams are so mystifying. I have read a lot of jung and other books about altered states of consciousness -- Jung believed in a universal subconscious language of symbology. I myself when I was very young had recurring dreams of being in a labyrinth pursued by a minotaur. It wasn't until years...

Does anyone listen to music as they write? Does anyone REQUIRE music to write? I'm curious to see who thinks it hinders or helps the process. When I first started to work on this "project" it started with a song called coyote by mako and then youtube led me down a norse/germanic/slavic rabbit...

I just arrived at these forums and I am pleased to see I am not alone. I am not a writer but recently something has germinated in my mind and I am here to learn (I hope,) how to nurture it and see it grow beyond the little sprouts that have made it to pen and paper. The process so far is...

Hello gentlefolk, It's a pleasure to once again and for the first time in many years join an online community. I googled art and writing forums and found this place. I'm neither an artist nor a writer but I have been compulsively drawing and writing these passed few days -- Something I can...