The image here is the logo for the 1968 series that has broken my writers block. Not many people would claim that a 40 years old kids series could, or should inspire anyone to write, but I’m odd that way. LOTG was, back in 2002, my only inspiration for writing, and for creating my first website dedicated to the series. From that jumping off point, I went on to write stories for other series, named Follyfoot, Peter Pan and much later, Primeval. All of which gave me the confidence to write an original novel in 2006.
So before you dismiss this series as so much rubbish, as some are fond of doing, think of it instead as a springboard for a writing career that has brought a great deal of pleasure to myself as a writer, and the readers (going by the site stats) that are still entertained.
I have suffered many months now without being able to write, and I was at a loss to find an ounce of inspiration from any quarter. With a need to update my LOTG website and repair links after a botched server changeover, I had to re-read a lot of my own fiction to recode it for html, plus give them a good editing, given all I’ve learned in the intervening years.
I found out that, even back then, I was a pretty decent author, borne out by the feedback I still get for some my stories posted on ff.net. Yes, it would be lovely to be published, but I’m not sure that would make me any happier than I am right now, noodling along and writing my romantic adventure yarns.
Writing is a wonderful form of escapism, and such a creative process when you don’t have to worry about whether it’s fit to be published, or up to someone elses standard for publication, or contains the right balance of “show” or “tell” or is infused with enough “emotional impact” to satisfy someone else.
I write what I want to read, and apparently others quite like that style as well.
I look upon this as a road to recovery after months of despair and depression. Not bad going for a rubbishy ( but not in my opinion) series almost as old as I am.
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