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Currently re-listening to a podcast story that I first listened to last year. It's really quite good. Link here if you are interested" I'd term it young adult fiction, kind of a mix of science fiction and fantasy. It has a couple of topics that give me pause to recommend it for kids. Talk of slavery and creation myths. If you are a parent, I'd given it a listen before letting the kids loose on it but it's pretty interesting.
The curious thing is that the _writing_ really isn't very good. Lots of bad sentence structure with tons of excess adjectives and adverbs, but the construction of the story is really excellent, particularly as it carries across the first two novels. Its a piece that was quite well planned out and makes you think in a non-linear fashion.
It's a level of construction that depresses me somewhat though. I look at my own works and I'm suddenly feeling skeptical that I'd ever have the kind of discipline and focus required to craft such a fine piece. I have the ideas, I have the understanding but I seem to lack the structural discipline. This is true for my artwork as well as my writing and other forms of story telling. I'm missing something vital in the underlying work in my projects. Most of my work is very superficial. This bothers me but I'm not sure how to fix it and I'm not sure how to find inner discipline. I routinely try but always fall short. :( How does one learn discipline as an adult?
The curious thing is that the _writing_ really isn't very good. Lots of bad sentence structure with tons of excess adjectives and adverbs, but the construction of the story is really excellent, particularly as it carries across the first two novels. Its a piece that was quite well planned out and makes you think in a non-linear fashion.
It's a level of construction that depresses me somewhat though. I look at my own works and I'm suddenly feeling skeptical that I'd ever have the kind of discipline and focus required to craft such a fine piece. I have the ideas, I have the understanding but I seem to lack the structural discipline. This is true for my artwork as well as my writing and other forms of story telling. I'm missing something vital in the underlying work in my projects. Most of my work is very superficial. This bothers me but I'm not sure how to fix it and I'm not sure how to find inner discipline. I routinely try but always fall short. :( How does one learn discipline as an adult?
