Here we are in August 2021, and New South Wales, Australia is in lockdown. Covid keeps drifting back like a bad smell.
Sick of looking at the same faces you say, just try living on your own. I’m so totally sick of the sight of my face.
All that aside I assume everyone has been taking their daily walks to get their hours of outdoor exercise as allowed.
Nothing open, nowhere to go, unless you want to shop for food, and if you’re like me, grocery shopping’s hardly stimulating.
With all this extra time on our hands (excusing those who are home schooling of course), this is the perfect time to stretch those soft flabby muscles.
Don’t get all indignant about that comment, my muscles are just as flabby as the next person’s.
What I’m talking about is our writing muscles. Especially the ‘little grey cells,’ as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot often quoted.
Dystopian civilisations come to mind stretch that imagination muscle with a fictional community or society that is undesirable or frightening.
The recent Sydney and Melbourne riots come to mind. A future where unreasonable anarchists are the order of the day.
There’s a lot of plots out there just waiting to be brought to life, by guess who, that’s right little old YOU.
As I’ve said before, the best way to know what you want to write is by reading other authors that interest you. Take note of their genre, their characters, the structure of their plots.
Ecclesiastes said, ‘… there’s nothing new under the sun,’ and I’m not advocating plagiarism, but
looking at the structure/process, and there are different structures for each genre as a rule.
Reading other authors will give you an idea of how to develop your own voice, and writing style.
I have a few things on the boil myself at present.
One of those goals is to develop a ‘Creative Writing’ Course, leading up to ‘Writing Your Novel.’
Exciting times. Watch this space.
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