tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839584506001378073.post5261246897186780221..comments2023-10-30T22:39:14.941+11:00Comments on Jonathan Gould, Writer: Something originalJonathan Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06169533695637011148noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839584506001378073.post-42818860108320586572012-12-16T17:40:44.595+11:002012-12-16T17:40:44.595+11:00Hi Jim,
Like the poem.
I think my abyss is mostl...Hi Jim,<br /><br />Like the poem.<br /><br />I think my abyss is mostly grey with little specks of colour on the edge of my sight.Jonathan Gouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06169533695637011148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839584506001378073.post-55504973734853924592012-12-15T22:44:11.425+11:002012-12-15T22:44:11.425+11:00It’s the difference between natural pearl and cult...It’s the difference between natural pearl and cultured pearls. To the untrained eye—or maybe tooth—there’s no difference but there is. I don’t subscribe to any kind of romantic notion of inspiration but I still believe in ideas and sometimes we have good ideas and sometimes we have to work with what we’ve got which is what you’ve done here. And sometimes the act of writing itself produces a good idea and sometimes not. It’s awfully hit and miss. I’m revising short stories at the moment, not rewriting as such but grafting bits into, and I’m having a real run of good ideas which I’m grateful for but the process is really underlining that we very rarely write a story from beginning to end and it’s great. We fiddle with them constantly and by the time we’re done we look like blinkin’ geniuses but we’re far from that. Even genius can be faked. I don’t do well under pressure which is why I write my posts weeks ahead of time so that I’m never stuck starting at a blank page. I wrote a poem about that a wee while back:<br /><br /> <b>Vacansopapurosophobia</b><br /><br /> Nietzsche said that when you<br /> look into an abyss, <br /> the abyss also looks <br /> into you.<br /><br /> Some imagine blackness,<br /> some an all-consuming <br /> fire. I am a writer – <br /> mine is white.<br /><br /> Friday, 14 October 2011<br /><br><br />Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com