tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2422112066790651313.post5952184177908596964..comments2024-03-14T08:34:34.769+00:00Comments on litrefs: More or less writingTim Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2422112066790651313.post-86615067321669125192014-05-14T17:24:04.094+01:002014-05-14T17:24:04.094+01:00A huge commitment - and a huge risk. At the end of...A huge commitment - and a huge risk. At the end of years of work one might not have a pile of junk, but the novel's content might be out of fashion by then. And it must be boring being cooped up all those years with the same characters. Tim Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2422112066790651313.post-68615399891914576112014-05-14T16:09:49.252+01:002014-05-14T16:09:49.252+01:00A novel, at least for me, is a HUGE commitment. Th...A novel, at least for me, is a HUGE commitment. They take me years. And at the moment the thought of writing anything that might take more than a week to complete is simply exhausting. Poems though come when <i>they</i> want. All I have to do is scribble them down, maybe tidy up a few words here and there and sort out the lines. I could subsist on them until I die. Happily. People only have so much to say and sometimes they take a lifetime to say it all but most of us start to run dry after a few years, a decade or two at most. What do any of us have to say that’s not been said before? What new insights do we have? Of course we can just write for the sheer pleasure of writing and who cares if anyone ever reads it. I think about writing a lot. I miss not writing. But at least I have written. There’s comfort in that too. Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com