{"id":5066,"date":"2012-09-07T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2012-09-07T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:00:36","slug":"college-dictionaries-and-slow-death-comix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=5066","title":{"rendered":"College Dictionaries and Slow Death Comix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jaxon’s great cover over great underground comix including Richard Corben. Had to have it. Image attribution.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I sit down to write I really only consider one audience: me.<\/p>\n

I know that\u2019s probably audacious considering I\u2019m in a field where everyone is concerned with What Sells and What Doesn\u2019t Sell. I don\u2019t really care.<\/p>\n

See, the thing is if I worry about or research What Sells I\u2019m going to be behind the curve. I can\u2019t afford to be behind the curve because I\u2019m not anywhere near the road that curves one way or the other. I pay more attention to What Doesn\u2019t Sell than anything else but only to know if I\u2019m going to have trouble selling a story if I get brave enough again to send it out.<\/p>\n

Like Modern Day SF. I like to write stories that aren\u2019t necessarily set in today\u2019s world, but maybe they\u2019re only a few years ahead of us. I grew up a couple of favorite stories that were obviously set on Earth, just a few years ahead of the time I was reading them. They still hold up as being a few years ahead of Now though they were written in the 50s and 60s. So that\u2019s the model I sometimes go for. Trouble is, I\u2019ve run into a couple of publishers who don\u2019t even want to look at that stuff and those had been places I\u2019d wanted to send stuff. I suppose I should have sent it anyway, but I\u2019m digressing from my topic.<\/p>\n

Or maybe not. Because I write for myself first I don\u2019t really worry all that much about what anyone else will think of what I\u2019m writing. I mean, I hope people will like it but that\u2019s not really important to me. Yes, I want to be published and I want to write for a market and get it out there for other people to like or dislike as they see fit but it\u2019s not what drives me. For instance I know my Mom reads most everything I post online (and Dad does, too, when Mom gives it to him to read).<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really worry what Mom thinks of my writing other than if it was a good story or blog post. I can\u2019t. If I start writing to someone other than me, I won\u2019t be true to what\u2019s in my head getting onto the page, digital or otherwise. My parents raised me to understand words and their meanings and to use them appropriately. I was given a college dictionary when I was still in 7th<\/sup> grade and of course the first words I looked up were The Seven Words You Can\u2019t Say on Television<\/a>. Yeah, they were there.<\/p>\n

Mom and I had a long talk. When I got my copy of Slow Death Comix #2 I saw a word that I hadn\u2019t encountered before. She told me it was okay to know it but to use if sparingly if at all. It\u2019s a word I find particularly distasteful and have never used – so far – in any writing. I can honestly say that if it were appropriate, I would. There\u2019d be no worry about offending my parents.<\/p>\n

Or anyone else who understands words.<\/p>\n

But it all starts with me sitting down to write. For me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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