tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post7699901468764492539..comments2024-03-28T16:47:51.948-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Seeking the museOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-56403675009342040002012-05-20T01:37:23.443-04:002012-05-20T01:37:23.443-04:00There are times, Stan, I feel like we're all j...There are times, Stan, I feel like we're all just the window the book blows in through. It's one of the great mysteries of my life, and I feel like the more I do of it, the less I understand it.Timothy Hallinanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00551263887774445511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-36756633013892657862012-05-19T18:09:07.604-04:002012-05-19T18:09:07.604-04:00I should have outlined, not run off spontaneously....I should have outlined, not run off spontaneously. It was the Champions League loss they're mourning, not the European Cup:).Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-73951281636481922702012-05-19T17:59:46.975-04:002012-05-19T17:59:46.975-04:00I have absolutely no idea where this comment is go...I have absolutely no idea where this comment is going. I'm just letting my fingers run across the keyboard--no doubt trying to escape the pain coming from the other room where my Munich friends are mourning their team's loss to Chelsea in the European soccer championship. <br /><br />I guess the morale is, forget about writing for the moment and enjoy your golf game.Jeffrey Sigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00718317707555064653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-21929259722939926682012-05-19T10:01:23.785-04:002012-05-19T10:01:23.785-04:00I believe as Michael does, and I have a trick for ...I believe as Michael does, and I have a trick for trying to get that next morning jolt of creativity. It works SOME of the time. If you want to try it, here is what I do: I stop writing in the middle of the sentence, in middle of a paragraph, even though I have the next thoughts ready to go. Then, before going to sleep, I read the last few paragraphs,close my eyes, and fall asleep thinking of my story. Next day, I sometimes find that zone quicker.<br /><br />I tend be very self-critical about my writing, but when I write in the zone, sometimes I like what I read so much that I wonder that I wrote it. And Yes, Michael, EVERYTHING needs polishing and polishing.<br />Happy golfing, Stan. Remember what the Scots right there across the water say, "If it's nae rain and it's nae wind, it's nae golf."Annamaria Alfierihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12311596277267789834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-69831395318273956222012-05-19T04:03:41.368-04:002012-05-19T04:03:41.368-04:00I'm a great believer in the subconscious for c...I'm a great believer in the subconscious for creativity. Whether it's writing or mathematics, that seems to be were the novel ideas come from. But like Stan - and unlike the mathematics - with writing I sometimes find a scene which I was turning over in my mind before sleep suddenly there in the morning and quite different from the way I had been thinking about it before.<br />Usually takes rewriting though. But doesn't everything?Michael Sears (of Michael Stanley)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09886295534214542834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-29901995299936480792012-05-18T08:17:47.695-04:002012-05-18T08:17:47.695-04:00I know what you mean. Those are the good days, whe...I know what you mean. Those are the good days, when you find that kind of reverie. The bad days I'm all too acutely aware that it's work and I'm grinding. Funnily enough, sometimes the words that have been ground out, where it feels like English is my third language, is the one I'm more happy with later.<br /><br />Enjoy Dublin. Though it's impossible not to really.Dan Waddellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04320741202757960766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-49575812751778667922012-05-17T17:31:15.424-04:002012-05-17T17:31:15.424-04:00I spent two summer months in Dublin, at Trinity, a...I spent two summer months in Dublin, at Trinity, and it rained for part of everyday but Sundays. Cosmetics companies would love to bottle it. It is nature's perfect moisturizer.<br /><br />It is that rain that creates the forty shades of green on the landscape. The "green" on Irish golf courses is not a misnomer.<br /><br />"So where does this state come from?" It comes from you, from your innate creativity. We see dramatic acts in movies in which artists hurl pots of paint at canvasses because the creative force took off a day or two or a hundred to rejuvenate, to take time to let it replenish its source.<br /><br />It seems that you are describing the process experienced by all creative people no matter what their medium.Bethhttp://www.murderbytype.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com