My writing is very stiff and constricted, limited to a few favourite themes that replay over and over. This is how it feels to me, and it may be wrong, but right now one reason that I'm holding off on writing other stories and other characters is fear of covering the same territory. I'm not writing original fic at the moment. I have nothing to say right now except this.
I have seen growth and deepening in your writing. You may be writing in a narrow vein, but many excellent writers do. You are mining that vein and pulling out gold. If you have nothing to say now "except this" than say it as best you can.
On the loss of "squeevision". I've definitely lost touch with some ecstatic experiences but the ability to be ecstatic remains. I think, in part, I have achieved this by refusing to act "age appropriately". I am a middle-aged man and concerned with things that concern middle-aged men, but I am also a teenage comic geek and, from time to time, a squeeing fan-girl. The thirteen year old who adored and found meaning in Godzilla movies is gone, unfortunately.
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Date: 2006-01-10 02:55 pm (UTC)I have seen growth and deepening in your writing. You may be writing in a narrow vein, but many excellent writers do. You are mining that vein and pulling out gold. If you have nothing to say now "except this" than say it as best you can.
On the loss of "squeevision". I've definitely lost touch with some ecstatic experiences but the ability to be ecstatic remains. I think, in part, I have achieved this by refusing to act "age appropriately". I am a middle-aged man and concerned with things that concern middle-aged men, but I am also a teenage comic geek and, from time to time, a squeeing fan-girl. The thirteen year old who adored and found meaning in Godzilla movies is gone, unfortunately.