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lighter:
Well, I really enjoy reading your word craft posts, so I'm not surprised at all to hear you were received with laughter and applause, Hops.
Splendidly done.....staying with the fear and procrastinating till you sorted, and figured it out. Clarity can dispell suffering. Amazing!
Continued joy and progress, Hops.
Light
Hopalong:
Thanks for asking, Tupp.
Being a poet is kind of a very deep identity I've had for a long time.
Always will.
But most of my poetry was one or two pages, deep rhythm/assonance/free verse...quite narrative and prosey lines as poetry goes (nothing postmodern about it, though not formal forms). And, it'd usually be written in a day, or even shorter. Might revise a bit (which means a couple WORDS or LINES) over the course of a week. But overall, it has been bursts of the creative, coming from a very deep place in the psyche, with an INDIRECT emotional resonance.
For me, writing this story that brewed in my head for 25+ years, is structurally utterly different. It needs consistent POV (point of view), juggles two main and several important non-main characters, dialogue, plot, narrative tension, scene, time period, plot timeline, careers (hadda interview that captain to get one character true), backstories, geography and history, on and on for loads of pages (likely at least 200). It's a different universe of words.
And I'm starting to wallow in it, which is why I'm feeling happy again. But the fear was of its great difference, plus doubting my capacity to sustain it. The latter is still going to be daunting for me, but also likely a culminating kind of an achievement if I make it.
It is the vast difference in this project, plus inner stuff, plus ADD, that explains it, I think. While the hyper-focus of ADD has actually been an inadvertent advantage in writing poetry I have to pull back, wide-view, longer view, to complete my novel well.
I'll find out if I can do it. But even to try, is the right thing.
love
Hops
Hopalong:
Lighter, thank you so much.
Hearing you be joyful about my joy
is really touching...and I know it's real.
Hugs
Hops
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on November 14, 2018, 10:05:02 PM ---Thanks for asking, Tupp.
Being a poet is kind of a very deep identity I've had for a long time.
Always will.
But most of my poetry was one or two pages, deep rhythm/assonance/free verse...quite narrative and prosey lines as poetry goes (nothing postmodern about it, though not formal forms). And, it'd usually be written in a day, or even shorter. Might revise a bit (which means a couple WORDS or LINES) over the course of a week. But overall, it has been bursts of the creative, coming from a very deep place in the psyche, with an INDIRECT emotional resonance.
For me, writing this story that brewed in my head for 25+ years, is structurally utterly different. It needs consistent POV (point of view), juggles two main and several important non-main characters, dialogue, plot, narrative tension, scene, time period, plot timeline, careers (hadda interview that captain to get one character true), backstories, geography and history, on and on for loads of pages (likely at least 200). It's a different universe of words.
And I'm starting to wallow in it, which is why I'm feeling happy again. But the fear was of its great difference, plus doubting my capacity to sustain it. The latter is still going to be daunting for me, but also likely a culminating kind of an achievement if I make it.
It is the vast difference in this project, plus inner stuff, plus ADD, that explains it, I think. While the hyper-focus of ADD has actually been an inadvertent advantage in writing poetry I have to pull back, wide-view, longer view, to complete my novel well.
I'll find out if I can do it. But even to try, is the right thing.
love
Hops
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Aw Hops, I felt tearful reading that! Yes, I can see exactly what you mean - short, sharp bursts of something that is a little work of art all by itself would seem easier than a lengthy piece that you have to sustain all the way through. Makes perfect sense and I'm so glad that you've got to a stage where you can dive in and keep working on it. Are you able to tell us about the plot or do you prefer to keep it close until you're further in. I'm so glad you've got this beautiful project to work on, and that it is one of your life long dreams! I think many of us think we could write a book but it's so much harder than it would appear. I'm really glad it's going so well for you and that you're enjoying doing it so much :) I'm looking forward to little updates! xx
Hopalong:
The plot's pretty complicated and it'd take forever to do it properly...
but it's about an eccentric woman who "rescues" (kidnaps) an obviously abused child, and goes on a long journey/adventure while being followed by a detective who gradually realizes she is right and the law is wrong (in this instance--think bureaucracy masquerading as justice), and falls for her. At the end (which is a happy and wryly romantic one) there's a mysterious episode that is viewed individually by the four main characters, showing that each has an utterly different perception of what happened. One real, one childlike, one a mix, one misses it...but trusts all the others' stories are true.
I'm sure that makes little sense! But if, however long from now, it works out...I will PM you the title!
xo
Hops
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