About 6 years ago, I made myself a promise: I would only write what I wanted to read. I wouldn't think about market, or audience, or anything else until a story was written. Before it could exist for anyone else, it has to exist for me.
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Books are a beast. Scripts are stressful. Comics are daunting. But holy hell, I love telling stories.
When I'm working on a book, I become so tangled up in it, I can't focus on anything else. But when I'm NOT working on a book, my thoughts get tangled up all on their own.
When I read someone say that every writer dreams of their work being adapted for Film or TV, I roll my eyes. Writers dreams of being published, of finding readers and keeping them, of being given the space to write the books they want... everything else is just icing.
I write simply so my hand can move, my thoughts move of their own accord. I write to kill a sleepless hour.
Paradoxically, vividness of description and detail here comes at the expense of realism. To put it simply, no one besides a writer—a professional noticer—notices this much, and certainly not in a near instantaneous time frame; not in a “taking in.” There is no reason to. This style of writing, which…
As with writing, the silence says as much, or more, than the word.
Description is, in fact, more useful for what it says about the noticer than the noticed.