The "Romantic" theory of creative inspiration is now largely scorned but, on learning of the death of an old friend, I dreamt of Pegasus - the Spirit of Creation revered by the ancient Greeks, I subsequently learned - appearing in the night sky, ramping & snorting - and the next day, lines rhymes, images etc. relating to our long friendship began to tumble out. It took a while to shape the whole thing but , not long afterwards, my "Requiem for a Rocker" was published in a top-flight poetry mag. 🌠
You aren't the first to propose the idea of starving oneself from creativity. to stop oneself from consuming the stories of others to create our own. I like the idea, I find I rely on reference to what I recently watched as a source of ideas and struggle to come up with ones truly unique.
So yeah no shit sherlock.....like Jailees and Jailors..so which are you....I think you are both so if you go for quality in any way hey your set then ok good day
This has to be a golden age for a talented writer. The age of wokery. Where the slogan has to be "the opposite is so." Antifa say they're anti-fascist, and the opposite is so - they're the fascists. BLM claim to be all about black lives, and Islam we are supposed to believe is - the religion of peace. Social Justice is supposed to be about fairness -- social justice, and free speech is now hate speech. And Will Self is supposed to be a talented writer - when - the opposite is so. He talks a good writer though !
@@haraldodunkirk1432 I guess it's a matter of taste, this thing called style. I'm pretty badly dyslectic, so a retarded reader. A writer for me has to be a kind of musician were the words fall into place like notes. Having said that, writers don't have to be Graham Greene, in that respect - but they do have to not be Jeffrey Archer. But that is not what bothers me about Self. What bothers me about self, is that he is uncomprehending. And what I mean by that is, he's like a colour blind artist. Not that the colour blind can't be artists, or don't have something to say - it's just that what's missing for Self's pallet is mundane actuality - it's the stuff of life. And - what I mean by that is, you can read an entire book by Self and learn nothing about yourself. Of course, I am rather dim - uncomprehending, you might say. Maybe the fact Graham Greene's en passant observations have the power to stop me in my tracts and Self's go over my head is only a reflection of that. But I am with Orwell - if a writer has anything to say - he can say it in language a clever 12 year old should get -- otherwise one suspects - he has nothing to say - and style is no substitute for content.
You write very well for a self-described dim dyslexic. I hear you on WS: as a prolific writer there have been many times that the bravura word-wanking has gotten in the way of substance/story etc- worst examples of this being his infatuation with Yardie drug culture in Tough, Tough Toys. Also his cherished street cred re smack. However, I think he captures the mundane everyday perfectly in parts of Shark or Phone...
Generous insights into the creative process...inspirational .captivating
Thank you
The "Romantic" theory of creative inspiration is now largely scorned but, on learning of the death of an old friend, I dreamt of Pegasus - the Spirit of Creation revered by the ancient Greeks, I subsequently learned - appearing in the night sky, ramping & snorting - and the next day, lines rhymes, images etc. relating to our long friendship began to tumble out. It took a while to shape the whole thing but , not long afterwards, my "Requiem for a Rocker" was published in a top-flight poetry mag. 🌠
PS: I'm looking for episodes 4-6 of Will's excellent talks but they seem to have disappeared... 😟
I got so far into the flow, I completely floated away!
Nevermind.
Soon be Christmas.
🎉🎉🎉
Turning down the volume of those negative voices!!! Wish I'd received this advice many years ago.
Inspiration will come but it better find you working!.....Picasso
Re. "Using your senses" : You can depict your subject in the manner of Gainsborough or Turner or Chagall or Picasso.... 🙂
read my green fire tommy & ruthie's blues amazon 🌈🦉
You aren't the first to propose the idea of starving oneself from creativity. to stop oneself from consuming the stories of others to create our own.
I like the idea, I find I rely on reference to what I recently watched as a source of ideas and struggle to come up with ones truly unique.
So
yeah no shit sherlock.....like Jailees and Jailors..so which are you....I think you are both so if you go for quality in any way hey your set then ok good day
This has to be a golden age for a talented writer. The age of wokery. Where the slogan has to be "the opposite is so." Antifa say they're anti-fascist, and the opposite is so - they're the fascists. BLM claim to be all about black lives, and Islam we are supposed to believe is - the religion of peace. Social Justice is supposed to be about fairness -- social justice, and free speech is now hate speech. And Will Self is supposed to be a talented writer - when - the opposite is so. He talks a good writer though !
You've somehow managed to join all those dots. The conspiratorial directive to dupe you into loving Will Self's work has failed.
@@talbrott I could do with some conspiratorial directive. Give me something to laugh at.
I agree with you about antifa, Islam and BLM etc. But I think WS is a talented prose-stylist... we can all swim about in subjectivity soup.
@@haraldodunkirk1432 I guess it's a matter of taste, this thing called style. I'm pretty badly dyslectic, so a retarded reader. A writer for me has to be a kind of musician were the words fall into place like notes. Having said that, writers don't have to be Graham Greene, in that respect - but they do have to not be Jeffrey Archer. But that is not what bothers me about Self. What bothers me about self, is that he is uncomprehending. And what I mean by that is, he's like a colour blind artist. Not that the colour blind can't be artists, or don't have something to say - it's just that what's missing for Self's pallet is mundane actuality - it's the stuff of life. And - what I mean by that is, you can read an entire book by Self and learn nothing about yourself. Of course, I am rather dim - uncomprehending, you might say. Maybe the fact Graham Greene's en passant observations have the power to stop me in my tracts and Self's go over my head is only a reflection of that. But I am with Orwell - if a writer has anything to say - he can say it in language a clever 12 year old should get -- otherwise one suspects - he has nothing to say - and style is no substitute for content.
You write very well for a self-described dim dyslexic. I hear you on WS: as a prolific writer there have been many times that the bravura word-wanking has gotten in the way of substance/story etc- worst examples of this being his infatuation with Yardie drug culture in Tough, Tough Toys. Also his cherished street cred re smack. However, I think he captures the mundane everyday perfectly in parts of Shark or Phone...