It was a labour of love writing this series based on the freewrite prompts @deeanndmathews and also something a cathartic journey for myself having had, shall we say, a colorful life (although I never had to kill a drug dealer like Ash).
The next episode is the final one, and it is definitely where the catharsis came for me. You know when I was studying writing at university, the lecturers used to say 'if you are only writing for yourself without considering your audience, you will not be a professional writer' and they were strangely both right and wrong. It is true that you're most likely to find success as a writer writing with your audience in mind, but as I found with this serial story, people who had never been in a hallucinatory state like cough coughme Ash still became entranced by this story, even though if you read all of them back to back they are very disjointed. I did that on purpose because that is what can happen when in extreme altered states of consciousness, but in this case what my lecturer said was wrong. I think sometimes you can stumble upon writing that is both cathartic for yourself, but also draws the reader in.
When it happens it is magic.
Thanks for reading. I'm glad you enjoyed this part... nearly at the end now. The final part 10 is scheduled to be shared on Listnerds tomorrow.
The lecturers have committed themselves to a world in which only certain audiences COUNT... few considered what would happen if a technology was created and more voices could speak ... and more audiences could find those voices. All of us have our limitations. The problem comes when we attempt to limit others to our limitations... but the lecturers were wrong, and here you are, with your audience drawn to your authentic story.
It was a labour of love writing this series based on the freewrite prompts @deeanndmathews and also something a cathartic journey for myself having had, shall we say, a colorful life (although I never had to kill a drug dealer like Ash).
The next episode is the final one, and it is definitely where the catharsis came for me. You know when I was studying writing at university, the lecturers used to say 'if you are only writing for yourself without considering your audience, you will not be a professional writer' and they were strangely both right and wrong. It is true that you're most likely to find success as a writer writing with your audience in mind, but as I found with this serial story, people who had never been in a hallucinatory state like
cough coughmeAsh still became entranced by this story, even though if you read all of them back to back they are very disjointed. I did that on purpose because that is what can happen when in extreme altered states of consciousness, but in this case what my lecturer said was wrong. I think sometimes you can stumble upon writing that is both cathartic for yourself, but also draws the reader in.When it happens it is magic.
Thanks for reading. I'm glad you enjoyed this part... nearly at the end now. The final part 10 is scheduled to be shared on Listnerds tomorrow.
The lecturers have committed themselves to a world in which only certain audiences COUNT... few considered what would happen if a technology was created and more voices could speak ... and more audiences could find those voices. All of us have our limitations. The problem comes when we attempt to limit others to our limitations... but the lecturers were wrong, and here you are, with your audience drawn to your authentic story.