On another note,
Monday, August 7th, 2006 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seraiI'd like to thank again all of you who gave me such lovely compliments on my latest Frodo fic. Over the last few years, I've learned never to predict when or if my Muse will show up, and what He'll decide to tell me about. Thus, while I do feel a bit of guilt over my lack of dependability where writing is concerned, the actual writing remains a joy. Middle Earth remains my home of choice, as it has been for nearly 30 years now, even if I sometimes don't get around to visiting for years.
But this last fic has learned me a valuable lesson, and that is this: too much LOTR input can reduce my output. It's telling to me that this last one was born not out of any inspiration from LOTR, but rather an idea that came from a completely different source. Any really good acting teacher will tell you that in order to be a good actor, you have to have a life filled with more than just acting, and I think the principle holds true with any art. You have to be able to bring inspiration from other areas of your life to bear, or else you're just not going to have anything interesting to say after a while. So that sudden vision of Frodo based on a story that had nothing to do with him or anything else in Tolkien, really isn't as much of a surprise as I'd thought on first writing it.
The things you learn!
But this last fic has learned me a valuable lesson, and that is this: too much LOTR input can reduce my output. It's telling to me that this last one was born not out of any inspiration from LOTR, but rather an idea that came from a completely different source. Any really good acting teacher will tell you that in order to be a good actor, you have to have a life filled with more than just acting, and I think the principle holds true with any art. You have to be able to bring inspiration from other areas of your life to bear, or else you're just not going to have anything interesting to say after a while. So that sudden vision of Frodo based on a story that had nothing to do with him or anything else in Tolkien, really isn't as much of a surprise as I'd thought on first writing it.
The things you learn!
