Romance author Rusty Blackwood on Thought – Disgust – Pride

• Posted on 9th February 2013
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Thought: One might find this post a tad strange – maybe the mind of a writer could be categorized as such, I don’t know, but I do know how my mind works and thinks, and if that is viewed as strange, then so be it. I find myself thinking back over the years since I first became a serious writer in 2001. My, how time has flown, a zillion words have come to mind, some have found their way upon piles of pages, no doubt the majority in type upon my word processor now filed in archives to be later drawn for whatever topic they may lend their particular expertise to, but each and every one from within the depth of my mind.

I first sat down to write my romance/drama Passions in Paris in the fall of 2001 on Word Perfect, no less, as that was the writing program upon the Windows 95 computer I had at that time. A dinosaur compared to today’s sleek limousines of writing, but still a good program and one that I’m sure many still use today. I still have Word Perfect on my computer, though I never use it, but it is still there in order to be able to read certain projects that were written on that program. I suppose it’s all in what one becomes used to, but I must say that I love Microsoft Word and the freedom it allows. I have a friend who still prefers Word Perfect, basically for the same reasons I prefer Microsoft Word, and the pieces she produces from it are always dead on the mark.

I can even remember the first day I sat down with the intention of beginning what has now, almost twelve years later, become the pride and joy of my writing existence. As it progressed, I can even remember wondering if the sexual content I was composing was too graphic, possibly too elicit for the reader’s eye, especially with the fact that it was not erotica that I was writing. I suppose I thought, like any self-respecting writer, of the way I might possibly  be perceived, especially by those who personally know me, because face it, I was revealing a tremendous amount of myself, my soul, and that is not an easy task to accomplish in the way that one hopes to without being viewed in the light that one is trying to evade. Yet the words pouring forth when you’re writing them are genuine, filled to capacity with every  feeling, expression, and nuance that is felt at the time of experiencing what it is you are writing about, and hoping the reader understands what it is you are trying to say.

Disgust: Writers strive for years, and years, hoping each new story can and will outshine the last, always reaching higher, trying your best to make it better, tweak it a little more, and hope that it fits within the literary guidelines that is laid out for each writer to achieve their goals within. The odd time someone comes along and is lucky, for whatever reason, or whatever the fates have in store, and they write something that happens to grab attention, however it’s meant, whatever reason is behind it, and to those that manage to pull this feat off I say congratulations,  good for you, for I think any writer- or any person in any genre of the Arts would no doubt feel the same – but I also say to these writers, do it with the right intention, and don’t bitch and moan when you achieve success, however you acquire it, and don’t flaunt your winnings above those who fully deserve recognition for well written work,  work that is solely their own, not plagiarized, or ripped off of someone else’s hard earned labors. It’s almost become an expected complaint, and for the many writers, like me who do complain about the charlatans who use this nonsense and trickery to achieve their goal, the reading public would accuse us of soul grapes or outright jealousy, yet the reading public does not understand the reason why a writer would say what I just have, so it is understandable why the public say what they do with regard to this.

Pride: Any  achievement a writer manages to make, provided it is done with the right intention and within the guidelines set out for all to abide by, then it is something to be proud of, and rightly so. A poem, a sonnet, short story, or novel, fiction, or non-fiction, be proud, for you deserve to be. I have written different genres, enjoyed each and every word I composed within them, but my pride and joy is my Passions in Paris: Revelations of a Lost Diary due out this spring. I often think I will never exceed this quality again, though I hope to, yet even if I never do I shall forever be proud of the achievement I have realized in this beautiful story.

 

And as always, support your local authors, as well as all your local talent in the Arts.

Rusty.

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