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Today's a glass of vino five comes from author Sam Youd.
You might know him as John Christopher, Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, or Anthony Rye. Yep, some folks do have a lot of words inside.
So, Sam writes about freedom and the destruction of society a lot. He just revolves around those ideas. Are you revolving around any ideas? Do you have themes that guide your work? What are they? Do you know? Like the words of Bob Dylan, "Everybody's got to serve somebody." We don't want to preach but we have something to say. That's what creative stuff is about -- communicating. I've found knowing what I'm about is very liberating in the creative process. I hope you find some freedom in thinking about what you're about.
Seize the day! Post how your doing and I'll do some holy snappin' See you here tomorrow.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. Alexander Graham Bell
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Today was a little tough settling down to write. Gorgeous weather in Central Park, NYC & babysitting a puppy can be very distracting. However, I was able to smooth a few transitions & upgrade some scenes. Yay!
I've done lots of cutting, so the ms is choppy. Must write a bunch of transitions and a couple of new scenes. One thing at a time ...
Snap! Snap! Snap! Bridgewater, that's for smoothing transitions and upgrading scenes in Central Park with a puppy. I love Central Park and I would be totally distracted with people watching and soaking in the fall, and you did this with a puppy! Determination and spunk!
Folks, let us know where you are working. I'm in bed. I like to write in bed. Sometime I go crazy and move to the couch. I also have another bed. I am a sloth.
Snap! Snap! Snap! Vijaya, yay for the cutting -- painful but necessary. I'm proud of you moving forward.
Surf in Port Townsend forced a writing break during the daylight hours, though to compensate I stayed up late working on it.
After a sprinting start, I have been finding myself starting to tangent. I burrow my way in to a hole but after a while, I have to come back to the surface for air and to check the validity of the tangent. Then maybe I leave that hole for a while and start another. See if they connect.
Headlamp? check. Burrowing gloves? check. Novelty mole nose? check.
Back to work.
Hi, Jesse, for honesty. Snap! Snap! Snap! I think tangents are just part of the journey. Sometimes, when I go off on a tangent, it turns out to be my best work ever. Sometimes it's a time waster. I avoiding the true work. Sometimes I go off on a tangent because I am stuck. It just happens sometimes that I am stuck. Only time and epiphany seem to help that. Keep your light on and keep burrowing.
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