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by L.A.Saxe

Rated: E · Book · Biographical · #2317184

Apparently blog is short for weblog.

I will now attempt to blog.

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Jack

May 19, 2025 at 12:57pm
In response to "The Struggle of Writing Something New and Sticking With It"

Good morning, L.A.Saxe

, and I hope it finds you well. I went looking for items to review, and discovered this blog instead. I've been writing — without any great success — for six and a half decades, so I'm going to offer my answers to some of your questions, and if any help you find your way, that's a good result.
I used to have your problem with new stories crowding in and taking over your current project. I had acquired the idea that you could only work on one at a time; some sort of Law of the Universe or something. Bollocks! If you're working on one story and another crowds in and demands your attention, that's fine. Set the first aside, perhaps in a gaudily-colored folder, and give your attention to the one that's demanding it. That's the one that's hot and will be the one you do your best work on. You'll eventually have five or six in various states of progress, and you can work on whichever one is tickling your fancy or even combine a couple, knowing the others are safely waiting in their folders.
Your style is your style. If you try to write like H.P. Lovecraft, you'll fall flat. If you try to write like H.G. Wells, success will prove elusive. You need to write like L.A. Saxe — catchy name for a writer, by the way. When you write a book, it's natural to hope that it will be read and beloved by millions. That's a noble aspiration. But while you're putting words on the page, what you are really doing is having an intimate conversation with one reader. Don't worry about how Hemmingway would have written it. You're L.A. Saxe, and that reader has chosen your work to read because you aren't Hemmingway, and he's looking for a new voice. Be that voice for him. If you can tell a halfway decent story, you'll find your audience.
Keep writing those random thoughts down. Someday, two of them will hook up into something greater than either, and a third will see them having fun and join the party. At that point, you'll be on your way. It's like catching a dog that's gotten off the leash: As long as you chase him, you'll never get close, but when you walk away and ignore him, he comes running to see what you're up to.
Everything has been done before, usually by Shakespeare. I often find myself writing to young people here, so I don't know whether you remember a little movie called Forbidden Planet. This was a 1956 movie that is generally credited with establishing the template for modern science fiction. That is well-known. What is not so commonly known is that it is so close as to be a retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Yes, everything has been done before. Does that mean you can't write another cop story, war story, or fantasy? Does that mean that you can't set a story on a space ship because Star Trek has already done that? Hardly. It isn't important what your story is "similar to." What matters is the story you tell, and I have to admit that I didn't know that Forbidden Planet was Shakespeare until I read it decades later on WikiPedia. What matters is the story you tell.
I'm running out of characters here. I hope I've put something up here that helps you find your focus. Writing is a big, wonderful world to explore, and you're one of the explorers. So, put on your pith helmet, grab your machete, and get out there and start exploring! ...

Seabreeze

May 12, 2025 at 9:24am
In response to "Walking the Dog"

Maybe he needed the minerals in the peel. Dogs are amazing. They will chew sticks and I was told once by a Vet, I believe, they want something that is in the sticks.

Have fun with him,

Seabreeze

Seabreeze

May 12, 2025 at 9:21am
In response to "Golfing"

Tried golf myself years ago; went out to the driving range and a 9 hole course once. Never went back. Not my thing. I do like to watch it on TV sometimes.

Stay with it. If you are interested and KNOW that approaching slowly will get you better results, you are half way home.

Best to you,
Seabreeze

August 24, 2025 at 6:32am

#1095854

Growing up Felt Good

I miss how life was in the early 2000s. It felt like time went slower. Days seemed to extend out in front of me and were bathed in a Thick Seasonal Atmosphere. The air felt introspective and the world felt quieter than it does now. I wonder how much of that is simply down to the fact that I was growing up. Does life feel chaotic, sped up, and less palpable for everyone over the age of 30? Is there anything we can do to fight the good fight and bring back some colour to life?

I’m not sure why I feel so nostalgic all the time. Every day, every damn day, memories from my childhood pop into my head and leave me with a wish to experience them again. Only the good ones, of course. It’s as though nostalgia is a kind of common cold and I’ve caught it real bad.

I want to simplify my life to see if that makes it feel more like it did when I was younger. Less screen time, more pondering, more making the best of what I have, and less trying to inexhaustibly add add add to life. There’s enough stuff in the world. The trick is to find a way to appreciate the simple things in life without being convinced that more more more means More Happy, which isn’t true. It seems counterintuitive, but the less you do, the more you feel.

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