“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
-Henry Ford
Apr
08
Posted by : | On : April 8, 2008
Apr
03
Posted by : | On : April 3, 2008
One thing I love about being a media whore in my glutton of movie-watching, TV-watching, and game-playing is that I often find frames of reference for my own work. More often than not, examples I find of themes, characters, or settings I like are not useful to me because I want to copy their positive traits, but more because I want to avoid their negative ones.
It all goes back to Differentiate Or Die for me. Not just from a marketing standpoint, but a creative one as well. You do well to establish your creative properties not by figuring out how similar they should be to others in the same genre, but by figuring out how yours is going to be different.
Apr
02
Posted by : | On : April 2, 2008
When I first started writing, everything I saw around me looked like a roadblock to just getting the thing done.
One of the biggest roadblocks was that I didn’t just want to write randomly and “follow the muse” so to speak. I didn’t want write stories that only I would enjoy, and others would find difficult to engage or understand.
I’ve always felt that storytelling is a very social form of creativity in that your audience needs to buy into your story in order to accept it, and if they can’t buy into it, then they won’t be buying, period.
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