What are you writing?

DannyL

Wild Horses
Post it innit.

I want to write a small piece in response to reading the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (the first in the genre of "slave narratives) but finding it hard so far to claw out the time needed.
 

luka

Well-known member
thanks jenks.
(danny, i linked to the essay there, too long to put here as a post i think.... probably)
 

craner

Beast of Burden
I just read it. It was very good, not sure why Luke is so opposed to writing in prose.

Of course I like it because it reminded me of our ancient argument...

http://cittaviolenta.blogspot.com/2006/12/

...even though it is a different point altogether that Luke is making and more sophisticated, and subtle, and cosmic.

However I was interested and even amused to see Luke quoting Deleuze and Guattari and citing Pound after the abuse I got for doing the same back in 2004.
 

luka

Well-known member
there's a pattern i have... i see something i cant absorb and understand in an instant and i bristle and angrily reject it... but i keep secretly going back to it and nibbling at it... trying to grasp it... and then i get it and once it clicks it'll be one of my favourite things.

im used to understanding things at a glance becuase i am so clever so it's the things that
resist me that keep me interested.
 

luka

Well-known member
by the way i dont want anyone thinking i slaved over that thing. i wrote it in an hour or so, let's call it 45 minutes, while i was in bed. it took longer to type up on the computer than it took to write. please dont think i was sitting at a desk for a month agonising over comma placements.

anyway craner, when are you coming back on the scene. i need you. i cant do it alone. i keep telling you this. without you as friendly competition i cant keep the level high.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
Soon actually, I have a couple of things planned, but they might be a bit passionless and political for you. However they are designed to get me back in the game and lead up to some more interesting things, like the fabled (ha ha, 5 years waiting) Balzac essay. Hell, I might not have a job by February, so writing will be all I have left, but that’s a whole other story.
 

luka

Well-known member
i was knocking about with Jim the other day and he told me all about it.
don't worry, just treat it as a holiday if it happens, take a nice long break then when you're ready
something much better will turn up
 

luka

Well-known member
that's right. that was some of my favourite stuff. that's what you excelled in to my mind.
you cant escape the fact that you are an aesthete essentially. not a politician.
 

luka

Well-known member
you have a genius for inventing characters and living through them. you can see the essential craner self in all these masks. i really love it. and the writing is so unapologetically stylish. none of that english dowdiness and self-effacement.
 

luka

Well-known member
you'll feel your way back into it. it takes time and practice and being serious about it.
 

luka

Well-known member
you need to get the feel for weights and tempos and rhythms again. its the material essentially.
it literally is a feeling game. always materials. it's like learning to manipulate any other set of objects.
you come to internalise a feel for how they act. muscle memory stuff. just knowing it.
 

luka

Well-known member
i know this stuff because i am the best writer in the world. if i tell you you have a natural gift that it is very important not to waste then you have to listen and obey. it's very important not to turn your back on your own destiny. it's equivilent to commiting suicide. it is a very grave sin.
 

craner

Beast of Burden
1. Yes.

2. Possibly.

3. Have a mortgage to pay.

4. I can write about anything well.

5. I can write about anything, well...

6. Have a mortgage to pay.

7. Yes.
 

luka

Well-known member
do you think i got to be the best writer in the world by worrying about a morgage?
 
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