(October 17, 2016 at 3:32 am)Maelstrom Wrote:

(October 1, 2016 at 1:51 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: What are your three most important principles you have in mind when you write?

I do not have any principles when I write.  I have learned that writing comes naturally without any bullshit.

I'm unsure how "principles" automatically become "bullshit". Care to expand upon that connection?

(October 17, 2016 at 3:34 am)Bella Morte Wrote: What age were you when you first started to get into writing?

I was a teenager, I cannot remember my precise age.

(October 17, 2016 at 3:38 am)Maelstrom Wrote:

(October 17, 2016 at 3:34 am)Bella Morte Wrote: What age were you when you first started to get into writing?

I was a teenager, I cannot remember my precise age.

That's a good enough answer.

Thanks.

(October 17, 2016 at 3:37 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'm unsure how "principles" automatically become "bullshit". Care to expand upon that connection?

I write without incumbrance. I write outside of the rules of writing that others follow.

(October 17, 2016 at 3:37 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'm unsure how "principles" automatically become "bullshit". Care to expand upon that connection?

I write without incumbrance. I write outside of the rules of writing that others follow.

(October 17, 2016 at 3:39 am)Maelstrom Wrote:

(October 17, 2016 at 3:37 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'm unsure how "principles" automatically become "bullshit". Care to expand upon that connection?

I write without incumbrance.  I write outside of the rules of writing that others follow.

I wasn't asking about rules others follow. I was asking if you had three principles you follow.

There's a bit of a difference. You could have, you know, stumbled across them yourself?

(October 17, 2016 at 3:48 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I wasn't asking about rules others follow. I was asking if you had three principles you follow.

There's a bit of a difference. You could have, you konw, stumbled across them yourself?

I write.

There are no principles, so far as I know.

Okay. Nothing you as a writer think important to the craft?

(October 17, 2016 at 4:26 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Okay. Nothing you as a writer think important to the craft?

What I have to offer to the craft is something I have always offered.

I do not write the characters so much as they write themselves; I have learned that the character takes hold and I no longer have control.

Well, yeah, we all do that.