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You must have the score in your head, not your head in the score.
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
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I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball.
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When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.
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I reckon that’s the risk you run, letting somebody else raise you chilluns.
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I am fine. I feel really good. I am playing without any sort of fitness problems.
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O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.
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My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.
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Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
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specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.
