blogs – Page 4 – TheTimeDok

As a writer, I follow many, talk with several; and listen a lot.

There are those who feel that they must complete 5 pages a day. There are those that don’t.

If you are passionate about it; writing 15 a day or more could be a piece of cake, or a bloody nightmare.

You simply cannot force creativity….

I have crawled out of bed at 3 AM and worked till well past noon the next day, as I was inspired. I have also stopped, and not touched the keyboard when nothing was happening.

There is a flow to the creative process and “external shit” can mess with that flow.

Maybe you don’t feel good, maybe the neighbor or spouse or sibling pissed you off…

Writing and painting to me are one in the same…I am an artist; I paint with oils…I can paint from my head, or from a model, or from a picture…it depends what I am going for.

I can also paint with words. In many cases I am much better with words than oils. My paintings have sold in many different countries, and yet I aspire to invoke emotions through language. Many artist do it through painting, or music, and that is all great and good. While I too play instruments; that is not my passion… I love music but telling a story…Ah…That excites me….!

Tonight I had a block…The story stood still and I sat here… I looked at the words and my characters were frozen. A fluid story stopped … as my creative process stopped….

I walked away…took a long shower and in that shower the next chapter sprang to life as the water danced off my hands and arms and…the rest of me….

Sometimes you simply have to wash the block away…..

Five pages a day….no…..I could force it but it would suck, and be badly created, and poorly read and most probably deleted the next day when I reread it….

You simply cannot force creativity….

-Best

Pictures

I blog for enjoyment. While I write science fiction for authorship; I blog to work on my craft, to enlighten others, and to exchange ideas in a format that is inclusive of all civil discourse.

Some of the pictures I post, I have taken, some I have gleaned from the internet, from one place or another.

Please keep in mind that I have no pecuniary interest in this blog, and make no money from it what-so-ever. Most of this blog is a public service, as I do offer much free advice in the IT arena; I have been at it professionally since 1982.

I would like to think from the numerous e-mails and comments that most of you find it entertaining, and some of the blogs are meant for just that.

Occasionally, someone will search their picture and find that I have posted it. Most of the time I get a message from them telling me that they are glad that I liked it enough to use it, and are surprised how it gets around. Much like the pictures on Pinterest are re-posted by the thousands.

If the owner of the photo would like, I will actually give them credit for it in the subtext, as I have done with many pictures, as I would like to give credit where credit is due. I also do that with text that I have copied from other places in the footnotes. If you write it, you should get the credit. I will even post a link to where I found it for others to follow, if they so choose. If they have a © by it of course, I will honor that and not copy it. I may still post a link to it if I reference it but, I honor the copy write as I would hope others would honor mine.

Pictures add to the blog I think, in that it breaks up the text, and a lot of folks are visual in nature.

Having said that, if you find something on my blog that is yours, and you would prefer that I not use it, just let me know and I will happily remove it. While I do make an effort to use pictures that are not marked with a ©, I understand ownership and intellectual property etc.

-Best