You have no idea how often this happens to me, nor the amount of trouble it actually causes in the day to day life.
| writing that puts story first
| writing that puts story first
You have no idea how often this happens to me, nor the amount of trouble it actually causes in the day to day life.
Let’s face it, I am terrible at doing just one thing at a time. When one thing does overcome me, it does so with absolute authority, pushing everything and everyone, out. It’s a kind of laser focus that can be dangerous, the death of interpersonal relationships. So, I try and play the field when it comes to sidework, lest I become too invested.
But, as the death of one of my primary project has happened, I have already started to move on. This time, I am returning to the world of fiction, and thus I am returning to my first true love.
It’s a homecoming of sorts, the first time I have really sat down with the intentions of writing longform fiction in many months. My life has settled somewhat, with the great upheavals threatening to be emotional, rather than physical, and so I feel that I am actually in a decent spot to focus again on the written word.
The first such project is progressing nicely through the planning stages, a sign that I no longer write as compulsively as I once did. Or perhaps that I have learned that a well crafted, tight plot is nonnegotiable. Either way, the format is what is important here, and that is a comic. No, I am not going to be drawing. That responsibility is resting with my good friend Mumah. The story is slowly coming to form, and over this vacation we’ll be sharing notes and working things out. Suffice it to say, this project is the equal and opposite reaction to writing such sterile and polite pieces for work. That is, it’s brutal, it’s offensive, and it’s a tremendous outlet.
The second project is one that is more difficult to write, and one that I am less willing to discuss at this juncture. The medium will be long format writing, albeit in both print and electronic versions. The genre is modern lit, and it’s the subject matter that really intrigues me. As this project develops, I’ll include more information on it here, and as some of it is electronic, some of it will be introduced online in real time.
Take from that what you will. I’ll simply take that it feels good to be creating again.
Information on these projects will be on the Projects page shortly.
Bradley Robb likes TV and books, and has an intense dislike for cinnamon. Once, Bradley stopped a Soviet T-60 with his middle finger. Bradley writes speculative fiction and edits Fiction Matters, and never really got the hang of talking about himself in the third person.
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