(I want to be stalwart and chic. I don't have to be trendy - I have to be timeless. Preferably channelling Josephine Baker. MrNybble I'd like long term satisfaction as well as consistent praise. Hm. But I hate it when my joker mates call me out on social media for being lame when I think I'm...
So I think for my next stuff I can go a bit darker and get some serious drama going on - or explore the worlds a bit more and start building the worlds and cultures out a bit more. I think this cross between real word places and experiences and fantastically dreamt up stuff is going to be my...
There once was a magical land called Lithuania. For half a year the land was white as sugar, a quarter red like fire and an eighth like watery rivers. It was a calm place, where human beings were nice to each other and liked to dance. On certain occasions, they would light up the city with...
With help from a native speaker - translating these from a Lithuanian comedian and localizing into English:
I put 10 euros on the table when the wind was blowing and then I turned around. When I turned back, the 10 euros were gone, and the wind was gone too.
I was chatting with a girl in a...
I'm starting to realize forums are a great way to cut through the noise of social media. This, so far has been the most engaging forum!
I will check out the reddit writers pages too.
I got banned from SFFChroniclesI think it's because I name dropped "Netflix" but I wasn't trying to promote it...
That sitting down thing is starting to become easier. I think if I have music on in the background it's also easier to get words on the page.
I'm trying to do a really thorough outline for the bit I'm writing at the moment. Hopefully, it'll all fall into place at it is 17 pages of bullet points...
Yes, I found when I lived in the middle of nowhere I enjoyed the noisy, crowded bars more. Now I prefer shooting stars and green trees to the bursting city.
I just wiki'd Hermit, aka eremite.
Eremite feels like it's the name for a socialist's kryptonite. And will try and get it into my next...
You say you "held many intensely social jobs/owned businesses, lived in large cities"... perhaps writing creatively is catharsis.
It perhaps can also help us to make sense of the real-life situations we're in. An explanation of sorts if our minds can't make a more 'rational' explanation/answer
Oh great question skip.knox re: style & voice.
Yes style, to me, is sentence structure, rhyme, how words sing off a page, breadth of vocabulary, comedy, rhythm.
Voice is who the person is talking that day (I guess this is important to my own style). Is it the well-rested voice who's passionate...