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Thursday, May 21, 2020 – TaleWriter
COMMENT & QUOTE
Comment:
I like Westerns, and by that, I mean American “Old West” Westerns. It’s a time to write in—not just to write about. The Western is more than genre, it’s a style. Almost any genre can be written in the style of an American Western: Mystery, Thriller, Supernatural, Science Fiction, Romance, they all fit, they all work, and because they are more often than not based in our past, they don’t go flat with age.
I like to write “Traditional Westerns”—good guys against bad guys, cattle drives, bank and train robberies, even a little romance (as long as it doesn’t go too far)—but—I also like to mix genres, in particular Horror and Westerns. I’m working on a series of stories in a fictional place called, Shadow Valley, a mixed genre Horror-Western series of stories, and it is a lot of fun coming up with the characters that populate them.
Sometimes I feel like 90 percent or more of what I write needs to be edited via the delete button, and sometimes I know it does, but I keep plugging away because sometimes I get almost 10 percent of what I write, right . . . eventually.
—And so, I leave you with this—
Quote:
“In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.”
~~ Will Rogers (1879—1935) ~~
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