08-01-2015, 08:52 PM
In the world of fiction writing, it's the same old, same old, question about 'something new.' The question is valid, but research seems to show that any number of topics and ideas revolve around the same human themes - love/hate, revenge and retribution, success/failure, life/death et. al. These are the bones to be fleshed out with individual creativity.
And creativity means sitting down nice and quiet and having the courage to let words flow - in a jumble, stream of consciousness, free thought, from notes, whatever - onto the page, even if it looks and sounds like dogs' vomit. Just write and scribble and doodle and bugger about. But get the ideas down. Let the juices flow, even if flowing juices are a cliché. It doesn't matter. Write. That is where the idea of newness and uniqueness comes from. New themes will be hard to find.
There was a nefarious monk
who went for a nap in his bunk.
He dreamt that Venus
was tickling his penis
and woke up all covered in sweat.
And creativity means sitting down nice and quiet and having the courage to let words flow - in a jumble, stream of consciousness, free thought, from notes, whatever - onto the page, even if it looks and sounds like dogs' vomit. Just write and scribble and doodle and bugger about. But get the ideas down. Let the juices flow, even if flowing juices are a cliché. It doesn't matter. Write. That is where the idea of newness and uniqueness comes from. New themes will be hard to find.
There was a nefarious monk
who went for a nap in his bunk.
He dreamt that Venus
was tickling his penis
and woke up all covered in sweat.
A poet who can't make the language sing doesn't start. Hence the shortage of real poems amongst the global planktonic field of duds. - Clive James.