{"id":49,"date":"2004-03-04T14:09:40","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T22:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2004-03-04T14:09:40","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T22:09:40","slug":"strange-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/strange-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s an incredibly mellow day. I’m having a difficult time with the concentration thing. In fact, I think I’ve given up on concentrating altogether. I was working on Strange Angels<\/a><\/strong>, but realized that I was having difficulty seeing the forest for the trees. Or looking at the whole forest, but forgettng the trees. Or I wasn’t looking at either forest or trees and was too caught up with moss and lichen instead. in fact, don’t think I was even in the woods at all. It was more like a creative underground parking lot. And I began to daydream about writing the thing as a novel instead.<\/p>\n

The thing of it is, the script is so unusual and ridiculous, that I’m going through the familiar process of falling into hatred with it. It can’t possibly be good, I think. It’s just too strange, yet it’s just not unique enough. It didn’t come to life. I’m like Dr. Frankenstein after the lightning storm, only my creature lies dead on a filthy gurney, unmoving, quiet, and kinda ugly. You know, I’ve wasted my time, it’s just going to make people scratch their heads, nobody will want to read it. It’s all a process. This hatred is part of the creative thing.<\/p>\n

So then I think, maybe it would <\/em>be better as a novel. And I start plotting to make time to work on that. The same thing happened with the delicate skin<\/strong>. In the end, I was happy with that one. So what we’re probably dealing with here is a case of project burnout. I’m going to retire into creative mode and think about future projects for a while… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s an incredibly mellow day. I’m having a difficult time with the concentration thing. In fact, I think I’ve given up on concentrating altogether. I was working on Strange Angels, but realized that I was having difficulty seeing the forest for the trees. Or looking at the whole forest, but forgettng the trees. Or I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}