I'm coming late to the party but having read the words of the wise this is going to be as good a way as any to throw myself in.
I have a story - its based around an artist's studio in the UK I stumbled across a couple of years ago. The artist was evicted for not paying his rent. The Studio told the story of his life. He had worked there for thirty five years; it was knee deep in accumulated debris, materials, work, paint, tools. You name it, it was there.
His 35 years in The Studio matches my adult life span. So I can more or less follow his career through my memories, experiences and life pattern. It helps that my wife is an artist.
I wanted to write this story as a piece for theatre - I figure multi-media backdrop projection would be a neat way of getting the significant events across to an audience. My daughter is in theatre production so it could develop into a family project.
Now the scary part. I've only just started writing. I thought writing for Lit. would be a way of getting started - we've all got one novel in us, but most of us have several erotic short stories.
Doing this will mean suspending my Lit. effort for the time being. I've got about 35k written as a series of linked diary stories + a spin-off story of 8k written over the last two days. I'm not boasting - just trying to psych myself up for this.
It would probably be good to drop the Lit. stuff and look again in a months time to see what physical residue remains! (Will I get a boner.)
I've put off starting The Studio for too long. This will make me write out the basic structure without being compromised by an immediate 'end game'; and give me the backbone for developing the project next year.
I've been following the threads for some little while before signing up this week. Your useful, witty and sarcastic comments have seriously helped me to come to terms with my ambitions.
Wish me luck.
Yours in terror.
Wills
Registration accepted as - Wills. Hurrah!
I have a story - its based around an artist's studio in the UK I stumbled across a couple of years ago. The artist was evicted for not paying his rent. The Studio told the story of his life. He had worked there for thirty five years; it was knee deep in accumulated debris, materials, work, paint, tools. You name it, it was there.
His 35 years in The Studio matches my adult life span. So I can more or less follow his career through my memories, experiences and life pattern. It helps that my wife is an artist.
I wanted to write this story as a piece for theatre - I figure multi-media backdrop projection would be a neat way of getting the significant events across to an audience. My daughter is in theatre production so it could develop into a family project.
Now the scary part. I've only just started writing. I thought writing for Lit. would be a way of getting started - we've all got one novel in us, but most of us have several erotic short stories.
Doing this will mean suspending my Lit. effort for the time being. I've got about 35k written as a series of linked diary stories + a spin-off story of 8k written over the last two days. I'm not boasting - just trying to psych myself up for this.
It would probably be good to drop the Lit. stuff and look again in a months time to see what physical residue remains! (Will I get a boner.)
I've put off starting The Studio for too long. This will make me write out the basic structure without being compromised by an immediate 'end game'; and give me the backbone for developing the project next year.
I've been following the threads for some little while before signing up this week. Your useful, witty and sarcastic comments have seriously helped me to come to terms with my ambitions.
Wish me luck.
Yours in terror.
Wills
Registration accepted as - Wills. Hurrah!
