Do you also write?

[Lilserenity]

I thought I'd throw this one out there.

In a 'computer' sense of the word I sometimes feel that I am very much multimedia, with photography being the prime passion along with writing. I also have a strong interest in video although I have summarily done sweet FA on that front (I have plans to do something about this) and I am also a huge music fiend -- have a very wide taste from indie rock, folk, jazz, progressive house, trip hop -- the lot; it sort of reinforces the mood and emotion in what I am capturing. In fact a piece of music this week inspired me again to seriously consider returning to the states again for the 3rd time. Sadly not for another 3 months (what with now having a 'proper' job) but even so....

Anyways, I was wondering -- do peeps here also write? I never used to be big on reading at school, I guess the likes of Hardy, Austen, Shakespeare and all that lot did nothing for me. It was all very nice but I have a pretty non orthoganal view on things and found that after many years of not reading asorbed in the likes of Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Hubert Selby Jr, JG Ballard, Will Self, Hunter S Thompson and so on -- I'm writing a book at the moment which I really hope will get some attention see as I think finally after years of writing moderately alright material I have found my moment.

I didn't know if others wrotem what their passions were in writing and literature and does your photography inform your writing and vice versa?

I find I am put in the mood for writing by the photos I have taken that capture an element or angle of that magical something and when combined with some music it's like fireworks and it all makes sense, like completing the loop!

For example, just re-read Requiem for a Dream and found myself watching the film again, leafing through my photos and such like from the states and then digging out music and stumbling across a remixed score from the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktxdiS0plwQ&feature=related&fmt=18
Not everyone's taste, it's pretty crazy but the thought of the train journey described in that music (it is after all the Coney Island Express) just made me really kick into writing overdrive for the section of the book I am writing; and in turn fed back into wanting to get back out to the states and do the thing properly with my 5 years more photographic experience.

This probably sounds way too enthusiastic but I just really wanted to find out and share literary experience and its relationship with your photography.

Vicky

Nb: my mood may have something to do with the dimmed lights, the sound system, the glasses of wine (but no drugs!) and my general demeanour on a Friday evening! 😀

 

[Roger Hicks]

Dear Vicky,

I set myself the target of learning to write by the time I was 40, and I think I may just about be getting there at nearly 60. My first published stuff was poetry in Bermuda in the 60s; my first paid-for published stuff, a short story in Penthouse (honestly!) in the early 70s. I've never had much fiction published -- half a dozen short stories, maybe -- but I do find that writing about photography (which I've been doing for 30 years or so) helps clarify my thoughts about taking pictures too.

Right now I'm trying to sell my first novel. Well, not my first -- there was another, when I was in my 20s -- but the first that has (I think) a decent chance of selling.

Cheers,

R.

 

[JoeV]

My program for learning to write is my blog, sort of a journeyman's apprenticeship, minus the mentor.

But I do find that I like the combination of photography and writing, the two seeming to somewhat correspond, hence the reason why I post a photo at the top of each blog entry.

~Joe

 

[bmattock]

I'm a far better writer than I am a photographer.

 

[stuartthomas]

Hi Bmattock,

I am a good Writer and i get prize for it while i was in School life, but this is also one kind of honour and interest, so still i am writing any thing regarding religions or new technologies.