Tag: mysticism
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On my creative process…
I have a pretty high criteria for writing–it must be fun, or at the very very VERY least, fulfilling in the net sense of gain versus loss. It’s a terrible way to make money, and, after a certain point, a story will inevitably attract dislike. (My reasoning for that is everyone has a different/unique view…
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Musings
As I get older, I’ve experienced multiple instances of good turning bad, and bad turning good. It’s encouraged me to tone down the judgment and reactive negativity. On a related note, I’ve come to believe that true abundance isn’t defined by time or material, but from possibility itself. Who knows what opportunities we’ll be able…
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On my creative process…
I love editing, and I consider it to be an integral part of writing. For me, editing is where I flesh out the rhythm of the words. It’s where I check the flow between lines, between paragraphs and chapters, how dialogue from one character interacts with another, revealing their base philosophies and to what degree…
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Musings
As I get older, I’ve experienced multiple instances of good turning bad, and bad turning good. It’s encouraged me to tone down the judgment and reactive negativity. On a related note, I’ve come to believe that true abundance isn’t defined by time or material, but from possibility itself. Who knows what opportunities we’ll be able…
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On my creative process…
For me, being creative is an implicit act of trust. I trust in the abundance of ideas, and that if I’m meant to write something, the inspiration will come at the right time and the right place. If someone asks for technical advice, I always defer to Joseph Campbell’s concept of the hero’s journey, the…
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Musings
As I get older, I’ve experienced multiple instances of good turning bad, and bad turning good. It’s encouraged me to tone down the judgment and reactive negativity. On a related note, I’ve come to believe that true abundance isn’t defined by time or material, but from possibility itself. Who knows what opportunities we’ll be able…
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On my creative process…
I used to take notes about my stories, and I still do (any ideas I have after drafting, I’ll compress into a few short sentence fragments enclosed in brackets at the end of the manuscript, to serve as a placeholder for my memory), but other than that, I stopped taking notes because I ended up…
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Musings
As I get older, I’ve experienced multiple instances of good turning bad, and bad turning good. It’s encouraged me to tone down the judgment and reactive negativity. On a related note, I’ve come to believe that true abundance isn’t defined by time or material, but from possibility itself. Who knows what opportunities we’ll be able…
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On my creative process…
I’ve known writers who guard their ideas as if they were extremely limited slices of a pie, bringing them up in the vaguest terms and gatekeeping them from prying eyes. If that works for them, then I can’t fault it. But for me, it’s the opposite–the idea isn’t all that important. It’s the ENERGY within…
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Musings
As I get older, I’ve experienced multiple instances of good turning bad, and bad turning good. It’s encouraged me to tone down the judgment and reactive negativity. On a related note, I’ve come to believe that true abundance isn’t defined by time or material, but from possibility itself. Who knows what opportunities we’ll be able…