Erotica author, aka Elspeth Potter, on Writing from the Inside
Friday, November 26, 2010
Things I Like To Write About
I'm trying to find my bliss.
It's been so long since I've deliberately sought out inspiration on this scale that it feels like something new! I haven't had time to come up with a totally new project since back in 2007. Ever since then, I've been writing from book to book, under contractual demands. It's freeing to imagine all the different things I could be writing right now; or, at least, after I finish a couple of short-term writing goals from the to-do list.
I'm trying a bit of free-association. What have I written about in the past that gave me great joy? What thrills me when I read about it? What things/situations/events make me eager to write? And can I reduce some of my free association to a list of Things I Like which might coalesce into a new idea?
World War One
losing and finding family
colonialism
space opera
horses
social class
psychic powers
hats
cities
postwar traumas
formal address
woolly mammoths
...and the list goes on.
It's been so long since I've deliberately sought out inspiration on this scale that it feels like something new! I haven't had time to come up with a totally new project since back in 2007. Ever since then, I've been writing from book to book, under contractual demands. It's freeing to imagine all the different things I could be writing right now; or, at least, after I finish a couple of short-term writing goals from the to-do list.
I'm trying a bit of free-association. What have I written about in the past that gave me great joy? What thrills me when I read about it? What things/situations/events make me eager to write? And can I reduce some of my free association to a list of Things I Like which might coalesce into a new idea?
World War One
losing and finding family
colonialism
space opera
horses
social class
psychic powers
hats
cities
postwar traumas
formal address
woolly mammoths
...and the list goes on.
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i'd love to read what comes from being inspired by that amazing list of things!
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