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     Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Of his own work, that is, and guaranteed to cause controversy. It's The Sun Shines Bright, showing this afternoon on Channel 4. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 147.252.230.154 |
He seemed like a cranky old buzzard in interviews when asked a questions he didn't like. Imagine calling "cut" on someone else's film! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.240.109 |
Author's attitudes towards their own work are notoriously untrustworthy.... Let's be grateful no one took, say, Virgil's and Kafka's opinions of their own creative work seriously - seriously seriously. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.240.109 |
Er, any creative artist, I mean, of course.... They are highly subjective consciousnesses when it comes to that. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Craig - correcting yourself mate, blimey! What next? Admitting you know nowt about movies (;  | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I should have said I recommend the film, which has some of Ford's greatest scenes. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.252.136 |
Well, creative minds' opinions on other creative minds, is to be highly prized.... Not you, Frank.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
It's odd, isn't it, what can be your favourite thing? Often it's not a plot but a sense of place and time, the tone. Ramsey - what is your favourite of all the things you've written? Which do you feel actual warmth for? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Two different questions there! I suppose it's the stuff of mine that still engages my imagination, but the problem may be whether the more recent stuff inevitably does. I'm fond of Needing Ghosts still, and I do rather like The Grin of the Dark, but who knows when I'll move on. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
It must be hard to remember all you've actually written Ramsey...I mean, I can't play some the songs I recorded just two years ago so gawd knows how you can remember everything you have written 20 plus years ago, or more. gcw | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
I suppose there must come a point where you feel a fondness for all of it, just the act of writing and seeing your voice on the page. Another question; are you proud of your work? I've only just come to terms with the fact I might have something regarding my own stuff, if I keep on, and it was the first time in my life I have ever felt such a thing. The boost to the confidence is remarkable. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
The first time I ever felt I might have something with my work was when a couple of writers I hugely respect told me I did. I almost shit myself...then thought: maybe I'm not so crap after all. It's a landmark moment. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
It's funny but it took myself, randomly reading pages from the mags, and stumbling on prose I didn't realise was mine. The critical faculty was entirely off and it hit me; I could string words together in a way that wasn't embarrassing. It did feel like a big moment - one I've been looking for for some time, as you all know. So no more harping on about that... | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.111.224 |
I'm so in love with myself I can't help but read old work and marvel at my style. I think "It's amazing, but I'm writing the exact kind of fiction I want to read!" What's sad is i don't know if every writer can make the same claim, that he or she is writing the fiction that he or she wants to read. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I know I am. I'm drawn to writers rather than genres, or kinds of writing. An extreme example: if Ramsey went apeshit and suddenly wrote a teen romance, I'd read it. Therefore, whatever I write I want to read: I'm my own biggest fan and harshest critic.  | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Proud - well, to an extent and on occasion, but always with reservations and a sense that I could have done better. That's why I carry on writing... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Formula for critical accuracy: write the stuff and wait two years to reread. It's actually a healthy process - you then realise what the shit bits are and which need addressing. As Northrop Frye used to say after too many tequilas. |