The Traveling Muse
(Originally posted on LiveJournal)
A couple of things have come my way in the last couple of days that have been great re-energizers for me.
First off, an online friend in England sent me a review of his reaction to The Scribbler’s Guide to the Land of Myth.
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As promised – a review of the book. Unfortuately as I ordered through Amazon UK it doesn’t appear to let me show my review on the US version. If you have a way to connect the two, by all means please do.
Oh yeah the book – really enjoyed reading it and love dipping into random pages. As I say in the review the balancing act of various content and concepts is impressive – it would of have been very easy to be swamped by one area.
(Link to his review at Amazon.uk)
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Then yesterday, when sorting papers, I found some older papers that have provided some inspiration.
First was finding the original manuscript for my poem on the damnation of Don Juan, with the note that one of my grad school professors wrote about it. She had some very complimentary things to say about it.
Then there were rejection letters from some short stories I submitted while I was an undergraduate. I remember that they did sting at the time. But some of them had notes like “Interesting story, but your prose is not adequate.” That was disappointing. But I can look back at them now and smile – I cringe a little thinking of the stories those critiques were applied to.
And then there were some story notes for stories that didn’t get written. Reading through the notes, I was very pleased to find that they are still pretty good ideas! Not bad at all! I’m going to copy the notes onto my computer and put them into active development.
After about a month or so of being stalled out creatively, it’s rather nice to find these things that have jazzed me up again about being a writer. I’m getting all wound up again, wanting to get back to work on various projects.
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!
Comments
sartorias – Dec. 23rd, 2008
Go for it!
scribblerworks – Dec. 24th, 2008
Been doing so, getting them on the computer.
It is sort of funny to look at the idea and wonder “How did I come up with this story?”
On the other hand, it’s nice to know that it is mine.
