Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Posts: 7 Location: Cambridge, England
Getting back in the saddle.
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 7:17 am
If anyone was an old-timer on ARWZ in its earlier incarnations you will recognise me as b-pup. I used to mod the writing craft forum. I now hail under the name of my own small business Clan Raven Cub. Homepage at clanravencub.wordpress.com. Its a small creative and design company.
Thats just a quick intro blurb. I have been trying to log back onto to Arwz on off now for a few months but each time there have been computer problems. When I left I had just published a poetry book, went very successfully. Just after so much went on, not good. I decided as my re-entry into writing and into Arwz what better way to start then as I left and pose a question. Here is the backdrop:::
And so I left writing behind to be honest, still wrote scraps of poetry and kept trying to get back to stories but my will was gone. I had developed a bit of a phobia to how I was back then, as writing was my expression. I didn't want to resume that method of expression any longer but I still wanted to write.
Anyway it comes down to it now where I am doing more and more creative work and finally sitting down with one of my old works and writing spin-off short stories, which I plan on blogging. So at the moment I am weaning myself back into creative writing.
So my question to the group for the day is: Has anyone else given up writing for a year or two, how did it feel coming back? Did you gain any insights and do you feel it has helped or hindered your writing?
I've had grim gaps of several years when I could not string two words of fiction together...
I've had times when life was too hectic or bleak for creativity.
I've spent years working on programming, electronics, 3D modelling and CAD to the exclusion of 'linear words'...
I've had times when my literary efforts were trashed so thoroughly that I turned to other things...
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One years-long outage ceased when I picked up a notebook with a tale's opening that I'd abandoned in mid sentence. I just finished the sentence, kept writing until the novelette was done. That was 'Autumn' & 'Forever Autumn' in my 'Convention' arc. The last page was set a generation later ...
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quote from the very end of 'FA':
We call the planet Autumn for its clime. Across the major, Equatorial continent, each night is cool and damp, each dawn is drenched with dew. By noon, the clear blue sky is strewn with white. Later, the roiling thunderheads exchange salvoes, then douse the lime-stone savannah with rain and hail.
In the coastal margins live the xenocidal Brownies, Autumn -anthropus mcdonaldii crypto -sapiens. On the smaller, Northern continent live the Klikta, recently admitted to our Worlds Council. Some day, the Brownies, too, will join. This continent, their land, is held in trust until then.
"But why?" whispered Rita, voicing our thoughts.
I held her close.
"Some day, they'll say. And then we'll understand. We MUST."
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