This week’s topic is:
‘What is the most difficult part of your artistic process?’
I’ve read my fellow writers’ blogs on this subject, and they talk about planning, grammar and punctuation, blurbs, marketing and titles. However, I have a different issue which grips me every time:
What the hell to write about in the first place!
Yes, it’s the book’s subject matter that I find most difficult. As soon as I have an idea in my head then I can tap away for hours, but it can be many months before inspiration hits. I try and pick subjects that not many other people have written about, and so I listen to news items and have found a few topics that way.
I also write about what I know or have personally experienced. I mix it all in with a fictional plot, and let the reader decide what’s true and what isn’t. However, I think I’m all written out for the moment, and so I’m looking for a new subject. Answers in the comments box below please!
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abetterman21 said:
Definitely new ideas
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P.J. MacLayne said:
Sometimes it isn’t the lack of ideas, but the lack of time to write them all!
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dgkaye said:
I get tons of ideas for stories for novels randomly, I just don’t have the inclination to write a fiction novel at this point yet, lol. Maybe I should start writing them down. I did read a blog over at Sally’s from Jessica Norrie about the subject of romance writers not writing enough love stories about seniors or boomers, compared to young love. There’s an idea for you! 🙂 Of course you must mention my name in acknowledgements when you write it LOL ❤
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Stevie Turner said:
Most of my stories are about boomers/middle agers. I’ve even written one about a 92 year old (Lily). Been there done that!
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dgkaye said:
Lol, touche! 🙂
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Phil Huston said:
You would think that content would be first and foremost, huh? But many of your fellow hoppers do a grand job of stringing (too many) words together that almost make sense and calling it done, so if throwing paint at the wall until satisfied is one’s modu operandi, then marketing is probably the biggest challenge. So bravo to you for coming right out and saying story is primary, not arc and goal and grammar and patois and all that BS. Stay tuned for one on Authenticity.
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Stevie Turner said:
You’ve got to have a good story to write about in the first place. Until I can think of one ….
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Phil Huston said:
There it is. Sometimes they show up inside of another project, or in line at the grocery store or we trip over them, but without one, long or short, it’s just paint on canvas, words on paper.
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Stevie Turner said:
Yep, and readers will be quick to spot something that has been written just for the sake of writing something!
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robertawrites235681907 said:
Currently, new ideas is not an issue for me, Stevie, but then I have only written 1 1/2 novels and 1 nearly finished novella. I do enjoy writing short stories too. I have loved all your books to date.
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Stevie Turner said:
Thanks Robbie.
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franklparker said:
Getting started and getting finished (editing/polishing). When it’s done it’s done, I hate tinkering to “improve” it.
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Stevie Turner said:
So do I.
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Phil Huston said:
Man, I am with you, but I can polish a turd until you could shave in it. I see something and I go, “Oh, shit. That could be so much better.” Musically I have to delete the project files when I call it done or I’d be back in there 15 years after the fact. You are correct. Things should stand as they are in their moment, and if they don’t stand up, well then own it and fix the NEXT one…He said, reworking 2015 for the 30th time…
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Stevie Turner said:
Yeah, I just can’t be arsed to go back and change everything. Besides, I kind of like my books the way they are…
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richarddeescifi said:
Like you, I try to avoid trends, I want to write the sort of thing I would love to READ That means different, not everyone’s ready for that!!!
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