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Flint needs steel to make a spark!
It made all the difference between Columbina sitting in a back drawer for ever, and making it as far as she has now, to have the encouragement of someone else really involved in the story.
Time has a similar effect, as little notions spark off something observed, or read or revealed... The longer it takes to get this story out, the more I change as a writer, too, and am not satisfied with the words written by the writer of 8 years ago.
And now... some character is gonna get a puppy...!
posted by
Ciel
on August 1, 2008 at 8:48 AM
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Ciel
Fascinating! And I recognize something in what you're describing in myself, and something that I have been missing - the need for the kind of creative interaction with others that some settings encourage, but which is rarely found in our 'normal' lives. I remember these times from graduate school and later, after I had become an academic myself, where it took the form of thinking creatively, and new ways of seeing and understanding, rather than the writing of novels...
But after I left the academic world to pursue 'riches', things went creatively flat, unfortunately. So one reads, and that helps a bit, but the sparks generated in the immediacy of the give-and-take of debate among those interested in the same things are absent...
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Nautikos
on August 1, 2008 at 6:03 AM
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