Is there any other way to do it? The reason I don't write much is I never like what I have done. It seems so fake. (Ask Zhaneel69 how nice I am with editing. I'm worse on myself.) When I read, I see what is happening like a play or movie. I just can't write fast enough to keep up and I lose five ideas for where it was going for every one that I manage to get out.
When I'm at the end of a novel/series of novels (because SUN SWORD was really the end of a very long novel), I have to type at my 80 wpm speed to keep up with everything; it's why I don't write longhand. It's too slow if I hit my stride. So I have a great deal of sympathy for your frustrations.
Not very comforting, especially when I go back and think, "That wasn't what was in my head!" GRRR. That, and to me, everything that comes out feels like it is borrowing from the authors I really like (Tolkein, Friedman, Williams, West) which just leaves me feeling like a hack.
I feel that I borrow from other traditions in a very emotional sense; the things that moved me in other works are things that are imprinted on my writer psyche, and I expect some of my work reflects that, and possibly echoes the emotionality (I know that's not a real word) of all of the authors who inspired me before.
Of course all the essays I wrote in school felt absurdly obvious too and one professor told me I didn't look at the world like anyone else so, what do I know about my own perspective? I'm kind of locked into it. Of course it looks obvious, I know the process that creates what is there. Oh well.
I always feel that I'm absurdly obvious and overstate things -- it's a huge fear of mine. But I've been told that I worry enough that I go in the other direction, and understate too much.
I think, if you write with a certain passion and a certain emotional clarity, obvious ceases to be an issue -- because what's obvious to you (or me) won't be obvious to other people; they're approaching the story from the beginning, and they're not you, they're not in your head -- they don't know where you're going, or sometimes why.
At least that's been my experience <g>. And as for the inspirations you've listed -- wow :D. I'm in damn good company :D.
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Date: 2004-10-21 09:22 pm (UTC)Is there any other way to do it? The reason I don't write much is I never like what I have done. It seems so fake. (Ask Zhaneel69 how nice I am with editing. I'm worse on myself.) When I read, I see what is happening like a play or movie. I just can't write fast enough to keep up and I lose five ideas for where it was going for every one that I manage to get out.
When I'm at the end of a novel/series of novels (because SUN SWORD was really the end of a very long novel), I have to type at my 80 wpm speed to keep up with everything; it's why I don't write longhand. It's too slow if I hit my stride. So I have a great deal of sympathy for your frustrations.
Not very comforting, especially when I go back and think, "That wasn't what was in my head!" GRRR. That, and to me, everything that comes out feels like it is borrowing from the authors I really like (Tolkein, Friedman, Williams, West) which just leaves me feeling like a hack.
I feel that I borrow from other traditions in a very emotional sense; the things that moved me in other works are things that are imprinted on my writer psyche, and I expect some of my work reflects that, and possibly echoes the emotionality (I know that's not a real word) of all of the authors who inspired me before.
Of course all the essays I wrote in school felt absurdly obvious too and one professor told me I didn't look at the world like anyone else so, what do I know about my own perspective? I'm kind of locked into it. Of course it looks obvious, I know the process that creates what is there. Oh well.
I always feel that I'm absurdly obvious and overstate things -- it's a huge fear of mine. But I've been told that I worry enough that I go in the other direction, and understate too much.
I think, if you write with a certain passion and a certain emotional clarity, obvious ceases to be an issue -- because what's obvious to you (or me) won't be obvious to other people; they're approaching the story from the beginning, and they're not you, they're not in your head -- they don't know where you're going, or sometimes why.
At least that's been my experience <g>. And as for the inspirations you've listed -- wow :D. I'm in damn good company :D.