What if I try a little Hockney (SPC Week 3)
Pieces of MeBear with me folks... in a bit of a mood today. I think it was being awoken by rumbling thunder at the crack of dawn. Or maybe the fact that I had to jump onto a conference call early this morning. Either way, I'm grumpy.
The photo collage above is in response to the June long event at Self Portrait Challenge--Pop Art. Not exactly sure this lands in the pop art category, as it was meant to follow a sorta David Hockney feel and turned into something totally different.
Which brings me to a good point of discussion for all you writers out there (or artists)--how do work on your projects? With a spark of an idea or an entire view of the finished product?
As you can guess from what happened with the project gone awry above--I work from just an idea. That idea, mind you, could be a character. A situation. One line of dialogue. A house. A city. Or maybe an emotion. I think it was Stephen King who once wrote/said that he works in a "What if" sorta world when he starts writing and let's the rest play out from there. And I like to think I keep good company--so I will say I'm with him.
What this really means is--I have a lot of starts that don't always end well. And then I tend to write myself into corners. Or at least situations that seem totally impossible to get out of. And then I write some more and get out of them. It is a crazy way to write since there is no way to predict an ending or what your characters will do. But it is also very enlightening. The mind is one complex piece of work--and boy does it surprise you. Let's just hope my writing is better than my Hockney impressions.
