posted Feb 5, 2012 7:35 PM by Eric Black
I've never really experienced much writer's block. I've always been able to put something down on paper (or my computer screen). I do have "writing pauses" from time-to-time, where what I am working on is not necessarilty what I feel I should be working on. For example, when I was writing Calling Babel, I had written about three chapters and it came to a point where I couldn't seem to go further with it. This issue was that the novel Intensity was there, waiting to be written, and I couldn't move on to finish Calling Babel until I finished Intensity. Writing pause. Now that I am working on Passchendaele, it seems I am taking another writing pause. I have been on chapter seven since before Thanksgiving. Last week it came to my mind that I would write a fourth novel to The Fountain series. Perhaps I should tackle that novel and when completed, Passchendale should just flow out of my, as Calling Babel did. Time will tell. |
posted Feb 4, 2012 8:13 PM by Eric Black
Some of my favorite collections of poetry. Some of the poems in these collections influenced my own writing. Some of these poems are similar to my writing style which I think is what drew my attention to them in the first place. (In no particular order.)
1. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke - "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying."
2. The Essential Rumi - "If I get out of this, I'll never live again in the limits of a lake. Next time, the ocean! I'll make the infinite my home."
3. A Night Without Armor by Jewel - "I wrote you those nice poems only because the honest ones would frighten you."
4. Mindfield by Gregory Corso - "One night fifty men swam away from God and drowned. In the morning the abandoned God dipped His finger into the sea, came up with fifty souls, and pointed towards eternity."
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posted Feb 4, 2012 8:11 PM by Eric Black
Three states and three months later, I'm back to writing. More down time in the evenings has given me more time to clear my head and think. That has not necessarily put me in the mind set to do much work on my newest novel, but I did put down my first really good poetry in several years.
Silence can be a scary thing. |
posted Feb 4, 2012 8:09 PM by Eric Black
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My writing always comes with a backdrop of good music. It's hard for me to write to silence. Not that I can't do it, it's just that music moves something within me and while it may cause an outward physical energy with some, it calms me down, allowing me to put my thoughts and emotions together. The result is, what I consider, good writing.
But don't just take my word for it, check it out yourself.
Any of the three following Bruce Dickinson solo albums has really been my catalyst as of late to putting words on paper (or on a computer screen) - Accident of Birth, Tyranny of Souls, The Chemical Wedding. Iron Maiden's frontman, during the time when he was not the frontman, has some powerful songs. Arc of Space, Omega, and Man of Sorrows from Accident of Birth, played in repetition, this is something I would recommend. |
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