tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408550521729634273.post7274832875757134771..comments2024-02-20T04:13:13.617-06:00Comments on Zen of Writing: Opps I am writing a new book - DaemonL.D. Alfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06720367819774905756noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408550521729634273.post-30163355739336081662010-11-17T15:27:27.855-06:002010-11-17T15:27:27.855-06:00As your personal friend I am always inspired by yo...As your personal friend I am always inspired by your uniqueness to balance family, life, business and Gods calling on your life. I enjoy your imaginative method of telling a story that both captures my attention, intellectually pushes me forward in my evolution as a scholar, a man and a christian. <br /><br />I am looking forward to catching up on your blogs here and eventually sitting down to reading the novel in its whole.<br /><br />To Cigars, love and life<br /><br />Your friend<br />Dr Ryan P. MullerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629017509720657890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3408550521729634273.post-45388861205531411752010-10-03T02:17:28.444-05:002010-10-03T02:17:28.444-05:00L.D. (Or what do you like to be called?),
Thanks ...L.D. (Or what do you like to be called?),<br /><br />Thanks for sharing this "creative moment." I think it is fascinating the extent to which inspired writeres - as opposed to "wanna be" authors - always know what they want to write about. The stories are in us - screaming to get out. I have never understood the "agonizing" (described in so many "creative writing" classes and articles about writing) involved in selecting a topic or finding a theme. It sounds as if you, like I, know what you want to write. The only problem is finding the time to do so and then, of course, fine-tuning the message, selecting the right perspective, construction, and language. The story is always there, inside, but every story can be told a thousand different ways. <br /><br />Allow me, as a historian just one comment on your choice of mixed genre: while this may work well for you and delight your readers, I believe that history itself offers such a vast wealth of radically different experiences that it is possible to write an almost infinite number of unique and very different stories without ever leaving the purely historical genre. If a writer keeps telling the same story again and again simply dressed up in different costumes than the problem is with the writer - not the genre.<br /><br />Last but not least, I'd been a bit hesitant to link this blog to my own www.Schradershistoricalfiction.blogspot.com because my genre is strictly historical and I wasn't sure if the science fiction focus of your recent posts was appropriate. On the other hand, I think just hearing how others create is valuable. Hope you'll link to my blog as well.<br />Helena P. SchraderHelena P. Schraderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06535398166485310212noreply@blogger.com