Comments on: Surrealist writing for a novel?

By: Maria P.

Maria P. — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:55:32 +0000

Found your site coincidentally, fascinated really, much of what you wrote is exactly how I write! Finshed my first novel in the blink of a eye, much like watching a movie,. Glad to hear I am not the only one. How is you're temperment as you write? Mine is Explosive, I hear!

By: Novel writing & the social media | Cementum

Novel writing & the social media | Cementum — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:26:49 +0000

[...] Simple place to start, as I’ve been writing about my novel I’ve broached subjects ranging from automatic writing to naming characters, the experiences I’ve had. Do the same, there’s people out there that are [...]

By: Richard Galbraith

Richard Galbraith — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:56:22 +0000

hey guys, really sorry for taking so long to get back to you, i've just been crazy with work and other stuff.

Mr Sanders, unfortunate to hear of your lull, but it happens to the best of us i'm sure. i always find doing something that particularly annoys me spurs me on whenever i have a bit of a dip. anger is a great, yet sometimes worrying, point of inspriation and motivation for me.

thanks for the comment as well Tommi, i love listing to music when i write. i find the sort of music that i think will fit the words i'm writing and press play, it helps keep the mood i'm after. Fight scene; some Slayer or Mars Volta, love scene; some phil collins, unhappy; tears for fears, etc, it helps me!

By: Tommi

Tommi — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:46:43 +0000

Yes. I hear you. Love the surrealist connection. But I never could "write" listening to music. I've certainly tried. I actually use ear plugs to find the silence I need now. There isn't enough silence.
-tgs-

By: RG Sanders

RG Sanders — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:22:08 +0000

Well at least the tone of your website reflects the somewhat dark tones of that snippet... I've bridged two sides of the writing medium in relation to the ways we approach it and I have to say, the more 'loose', free-form flow of ideas and creations is much more appealing to me. I have tried to structure and detail to within a gnat's pube of a breath, but then I come to the realisation that I'm sick of the story before it's begun, and the details overwhelm the actual growing arc of the story itself. I don't think I have gone to the extent you have, in cutting myself off so voluntarily (but then I have two kids), but I completely understand the situation you choose and the way it reflects on your writing. At the moment I feel at best when I am calm, collected and feel no pressure to do anything else but sit, and write. Without the hindrance of an expectation from someone else to do something - anything - I am apparently supposed to be taking care of, I feel free and the words flow better. Without that it turns hackneyed and forces, like a military beat instead of a fluxing rhythm. Of late however, I find myself stuck. I don't think it's a lack of inspiration, nor the old idea of writer's block (something I'm not sure I actually believe is possible in such a simple excusable use). I think I'm in a state of transition to be honest. Where I used to plan and plan and expect and get down to it, now I wait for it to come to me. Whether that's sitting in a cafe for two-hours, or surfing zee internets... I also find, and feel comfortable, in not editing as I go. Write it, come back an clean it up later. Whatever you do, just get it down on paper.