Well, happy new year to you, too!
I spent NYE 19/20 asleep until stupid o'clock and then I ended up chatting with other writers and artists about everything from swatch cards to what it's like to write evil characters.
It seems to be a new thing to a lot of us. I spent the last year trying to fumble my way through creating people who did things I considered unthinkable. My initial coping mechanism has been to treat it like I was writing clinical charting reports. These weird, loathsome, almost pitiable creatures eventually come to have identities, speeches, and patterns of moving and being and thinking of their own. It still feels grotesque. I wonder how career crime writers do it?
There are some new things here. I am slowly but surely getting to the things I'd committed to writing last year. There is a part of me that wants to just get it all done and then there is a part of me that wants to get my voice back to its full strength before telling their stories. So that's where I am right now.
Namaste, y'all!
Jas
I spent NYE 19/20 asleep until stupid o'clock and then I ended up chatting with other writers and artists about everything from swatch cards to what it's like to write evil characters.
It seems to be a new thing to a lot of us. I spent the last year trying to fumble my way through creating people who did things I considered unthinkable. My initial coping mechanism has been to treat it like I was writing clinical charting reports. These weird, loathsome, almost pitiable creatures eventually come to have identities, speeches, and patterns of moving and being and thinking of their own. It still feels grotesque. I wonder how career crime writers do it?
There are some new things here. I am slowly but surely getting to the things I'd committed to writing last year. There is a part of me that wants to just get it all done and then there is a part of me that wants to get my voice back to its full strength before telling their stories. So that's where I am right now.
Namaste, y'all!
Jas
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