On writing

So … I’m writing. Like loads. And loads. And I don’t just mean for my day job, which involves quite a bit of writing (funny that, what with me being a journalist and all I mean, writing for my novel and this blog. I just feel so utterly prolific right now but that kinda scares me – when’s the block gonna appear before me? Anyway, one mustn’t dwell on such things. Think positive, young girl! 

Anyways, the course I’m doing is really working, really getting my creative juices flowing. Each exercise it sets means I can write a bit more of my novel. I’m a little concerned that’s not the point – they probably want me to write lots of different pieces, not just pieces for my own novel. But my novel is the reason I have done this course.

 It’s also encouraging me to research – am hoping to pin my novel on the whole generation X thang but also show the contrasts between different ‘generations’ – how does gen x (those born in 70s) interact with gen c (those born in 90s)? Has got me really inspired; so inspired that I wrote a piece about how the characters in my book find this kinda post-apocalyptic art in some tunnel somewhere. I describe it as being done by ”a generation mourning a world without web; desperate to continue collaborating and co-creating in any way they could.” I posted it to my course forum, no feedback yet – is that a good thing?

Anyway, found 2 great articles which might interest:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2276189.ece http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,970634-3,00.html