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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.217.52 |
Is there someone within you who writes your stories but it is not you? Or is it simply a collaboration between different aspects of your self? I've now brought Matt Cardin's excellent articles to the attention of my blog readers (if any  ) with a brief encapsulation of my uncertain thoughts on the connection between writers and his or her Muse. http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/matt_cardins_demon_muse.htm | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.90 |
I think there are two me's, one a sort of ghost who's a lot brainier, but frightened. The outside one is more stupid and awkward, and more frightened.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.90 |
“Some of you are doomed to be artists.” "I had a burning desire to be excellent, but no faith that I could be.” Sigh... That article is excellent. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.217.52 |
Thanks, Tony. Brian Keene interviewed me ten years ago - where I discuss, inter alia, the creative process, including this 'pretentious' statement from me: Hoping not to sound pretentious, I’ve always felt I was teetering on the brink of a "unique voice", as you put it, when in the writing mode. At times, I’ve thought it externally, almost religiously, driven. At others, internally, essentially "me". I physically have an enormous head and I feel it contains two brains, which often talk to each other and collaborate, but then, at different times, they are mutually counter productive! The whole interview I've put here today: http://weirdmonger.livejournal.com/2010/03/18/ | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.90 |
Sometimes, when the writing is going right, I feel like I'm going to gag. It's an almost erotic excitement, a spiritual certainty - like climbing some tall inner tower and seeing everything clearly. The two are one, or the inner finally finds itself capbale of overcoming the outer. I can be pretentious, too! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.90 |
Capbale? | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
The fiction writing me and the real me are only sometimes the same person. Too often the real me treats the fiction writing me as a galley slave, making demands, hurling insults, doling out punishments. The fiction writing me holds no grudge, however, and sometimes even acquiesces. We'd get along a lot better, however, if I let him be himself, which is something I'm only starting to be able to do. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.150.200.187 |
I sometimes think we and our souls are not the same thing, that the soul is trapped inside us until we pass on. When the soul goes wherever it goes next it maybe takes something of the best of us with it. I also think we aren't truly happy until we relax and hand over our reigns to our souls, let them take charge now and then. We all know it when it happens. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.232 |
My big analogous phrase for it, is "tapping into that place." Which is about as specific as the word "love," but the generality of that term is its own kind of specific. When everything's going right in the writing, I'm "tapping into that place." And in this respect, oddly, I feel one mystery has been semi-opened for me; which is, the artistry of other writers. I know distantly and dimly what it must have been like for Shakespeare, say, to "tap into that place," which is what I think he was doing (and of course all other great artists): he was - imagine near trance-like - "tapping into that place." And beyond that mysterious act, there is very little mystery left, because that's all it is, like some dumb, brainless action, like thrusting your finger into a light-socket would be - that's what "tapping into that place" is, and the bringing back something from that side. And only here on this side, are we able to marvel and wonder and be filled with awe and mystery at it, and mythologize the whole process.... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.217.52 |
Some important stuff above - and, imo, Craig, that's a blinder. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.236.63 |
... what's a "blinder"?  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.169.217.52 |
You played a blinder. A stunning contribution. Thanks. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.2.0 |
Oh - thanks again!  I'm getting a big head thanks to you, Des, which I will of course use to batter Weber brainless with.  |