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As I Get Older.....
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... I seem to have more memories than future plans. I dislike memories - I tend to live for what is to be. Is it a sign of impending death?
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Carrot; Thanks for your advice.
I think it's more to do with me having writer's block. Having galloped through 70k words of decent story, I find myself spending each day editing and refining instead of sprinting towards the exciting/surprising/poignant denouement.
Sigh. I'll get it plotted by the end of the month and polished by the end of the year.
I promise.
Best wishes.
I think it's more to do with me having writer's block. Having galloped through 70k words of decent story, I find myself spending each day editing and refining instead of sprinting towards the exciting/surprising/poignant denouement.
Sigh. I'll get it plotted by the end of the month and polished by the end of the year.
I promise.
Best wishes.
acquiring more memories as you grow older, whether you like them or not, is a sign of growing older, that's all. You will die, but there's no reason to suppose it's "impending". As to whether you make fewer plans, that's up to you; I have personally given up on my dreams of visiting Tibet and winning Olympic gold medals, but that's probably just because I am starting to get wise to my limitations, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I know that problem,but not so seriously I currently have the queen of hell, a couple of fallen angels and a flatulent hell hound stuck in mid wales, hunting a wolf/ alpaca type of monster and I just need to get them to somewhere they can cause more mayhem. I like to give myself challenges... Writing a comic novel was a good idea I thought, forgetting comedy is very very difficult. I also am doing some difficult embroidery, and after yesterday think I might work on my drawing... Memories are source material, it's the only way I think they are really useful.
Atheist, always nice to think you will leave a work that will ensure you will be remembered, but sometimes it's the little things that may have the biggest impact. The person you gave time to, maybe helping them with am on application, or the child you told was good at something, when everyone else put them down. Those impacts are our legacy, That child may grow up to do the big thing.... We don't know, the thing is you may not have had your impact yet, all you can do is stay alive and involved and open to what may present it self.
I think it happens to all of us as we age. But memories can be good things. I know I cannot do much now but thinking back to the amountof things I have done and achieved in my in my life gives me a lot of pleasure and doesn't mean impending death. I am just having to resign myself that I can't do what I used to love. Travel is out of the question, q
Thanks all.
Carrot. My current story is a sequel to my first, and I feel too old to manage a third. My second needs to be the real deal. I only started writing seriously when I was 70, and there's no chance of learning enough to start churning out a best-selling series. The only impending death at the mo is whether or not the 'hero' dies as part of the story - if he doesn't, I'll need to write a third, and I don't think I could manage a plausible tale without the old b***r being in it. He's the only one I can sort of understand.
Carrot. My current story is a sequel to my first, and I feel too old to manage a third. My second needs to be the real deal. I only started writing seriously when I was 70, and there's no chance of learning enough to start churning out a best-selling series. The only impending death at the mo is whether or not the 'hero' dies as part of the story - if he doesn't, I'll need to write a third, and I don't think I could manage a plausible tale without the old b***r being in it. He's the only one I can sort of understand.
Thanks, fanny, for not mentioning SNP! Lol.
Rowan; I think you have more imagination than I have. I look forward to seeing more of your stuff. Thanks for your words.
Misst; My memories bring me no happiness; "Chronicles of Wasted Time"! But they don't bring me sadness either - the past is gone and the future is all we have.
Rowan; I think you have more imagination than I have. I look forward to seeing more of your stuff. Thanks for your words.
Misst; My memories bring me no happiness; "Chronicles of Wasted Time"! But they don't bring me sadness either - the past is gone and the future is all we have.
Atheist, i have penned a yet-to-be-published novel of approx 120,000 words. I have submitted parts of it to publishers over the years - not for some time, though - but if i truly want it 'out there' i may have to go down the route of 'vanity publishing' via Kindle.
While i was writing the novel, i would do so in ink, until i ran out of things to say; then i would type what i had written. I found this to be the best way of moving forward with the novel. Sometimes the characters would take over the story and when i came to type the written work, i was sometimes taken aback by this. I am told this is a good sign.
I suppose the point of my post is that your main character may himself decide whether he lives or dies and how the story ought to end.
Best of luck with it.
While i was writing the novel, i would do so in ink, until i ran out of things to say; then i would type what i had written. I found this to be the best way of moving forward with the novel. Sometimes the characters would take over the story and when i came to type the written work, i was sometimes taken aback by this. I am told this is a good sign.
I suppose the point of my post is that your main character may himself decide whether he lives or dies and how the story ought to end.
Best of luck with it.
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