A journey in writing

If you are intrested in the creative writing process at all and read my post last night you may be thinking that my methodologies are a bit formulaic and dry. Or my approach may seem to rigid and lacking in inspired creativity. I asure you it simply seems that way.

The truth of the matter is it is all really just play to me. My titles are often a matter of word play. One that comes to mind is the idea I had for a story title the other day. I was posting about how I'd started to notice steampunk themes in media that I hadn't noticed before I'd known anything about the genre. I used the simple phrase Allusions of Steam. It struck me right away that that was a perfectly snappy title for a story with subtle steam or burgeoning steam techknowlegy. and from that point little ideas pop into my head as to what type of story meets the qualifications for the title.

This is one of my other ways to come up with story ideas. simply create a snappy phrase or a play on words and then justify it, explain how it could be suitable in describing a world.

Again this sounds dry and almost like paperwork or lab experiments you did in highschool, but the truth is more like abstract painting or blowing bubbles. with simple and consistent chemical mixtures and uniform tools you can make an array of fantasies and ideas more real and the inspiration is the hardest part to explain.

I know a guy who is increadibly dry and logic minded who has actually said to me, in a philisophical discussion on the nature of inspiration, that in many cases inspirational flashes are actually micro seizures in the frontal lobes... there was more but I found the whole idea so amusing I didn't stop to grasp the entirty of the statement.

Whereever it comes from it's a wonder to start out with a word or phrase that eveokes that feeling of importance or ecitment, and challenges you to tell a story that gives it meaning and a home.

I probably won't be using the title above, as others have tobled through in the last few days. that better suit the direction of one of my stories. And who knows I may change the title again before I'm through. It less about that then the start of the train of thought and the world building.

Like I mentioned last time, the world and it's people is how I write. If I'm to tell you a story I want to take you to a place that is not shallow or simply a facade over a preachy point. I want you to relate to people and places that are at once farmiliar in their way and yet exotic and enchanting.

And on the topic of enchantment I hope to post my next entry on my writing about the fantasies that may be written this month or in the near future. I've got a group meeting tomorrow but might be able to make it to the labs in time to post it. If not be sure it will be up by midnight on sunday.

Until then take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack