Every time I go looking for something to write, I get drawn back to things I've started and abandoned, ideas or notes I had ten or twenty years ago and never made anything out of.
Since nothing I've thought of recently attracts me as much, I'm wondering how dangerous it would be to revisit these themes and characters, even though I've never succeeded with them before.
My wife tells me to write--and read!--something different from what I've always written and read. But it's always the familiar stuff from the past that grabs me.
Should I submit to the temptation and wallow in the past again, thinking this time I know enough to make it work?
Come to think of it, maybe this is a theme in itself.
Since nothing I've thought of recently attracts me as much, I'm wondering how dangerous it would be to revisit these themes and characters, even though I've never succeeded with them before.
My wife tells me to write--and read!--something different from what I've always written and read. But it's always the familiar stuff from the past that grabs me.
Should I submit to the temptation and wallow in the past again, thinking this time I know enough to make it work?
Come to think of it, maybe this is a theme in itself.
