tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post4786021155655062808..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Recycling: Increase your productivityKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-44153769971400030512016-01-21T13:42:12.238+00:002016-01-21T13:42:12.238+00:00I seem to try riffs on favorite themes more than a...I seem to try riffs on favorite themes more than actually recycle: a stranger in a strange land being #1. That said, I did recycle a failed nonfiction account of my time in Canada as a stateless person...transforming it into The suiting, my first published book.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-90633196638161368942016-01-21T13:05:46.337+00:002016-01-21T13:05:46.337+00:00Since setting up my author's page on Facebook,...Since setting up my author's page on Facebook, I have been drip-feeding all the accumulated writing of nine years of writing groups, competitions, impromptu poems and columns for magazines. There's no money in it, of course, but it's encouraging to get appreciative feedback and a growing band of followers. I'm hoping it will pay off when my next novel is ready for publishing. Time will tell!Fran Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13497526684591168192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-7919700121929726012016-01-20T15:15:13.316+00:002016-01-20T15:15:13.316+00:00Ah! You've rekindled my faith in men, Dennis.Ah! You've rekindled my faith in men, Dennis.Chris Longmuirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02488093821886798927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-42331060757133347492016-01-19T21:53:46.970+00:002016-01-19T21:53:46.970+00:00Sorry. I meant sixty years after the event, thirty...Sorry. I meant sixty years after the event, thirty after the bookDennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08003209263201885118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-15881563063477567232016-01-19T21:50:50.469+00:002016-01-19T21:50:50.469+00:00Not true, Chris. Yes, I recycle rubbish and I also...Not true, Chris. Yes, I recycle rubbish and I also recycle old plot s. In my third novel, Landings, published in 1978, the central event from which all else came was a fictionalising of a real and almost traumatic experience when I crashed a glider when I was 15 and in the Air Training Corps. That memory has never left me so I unashedly used it in a Shades for Evans sixty years later. I told the editor who was quite happy about it. Last year I did another Shades, this time for Ransom, recycling the central proposition of anothr prevous novel, Haunted United, a football ghostt story, first,because I liked it and second, because I thought there were implcations in it which I hadn't followed through first time round. Once again, I told the editor, whho was happy about it. And there are lots more things in what I've written which I might resurrect. If it's worth writing once, then it's worth writing twice.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08003209263201885118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-32767523407703432772016-01-19T12:20:29.675+00:002016-01-19T12:20:29.675+00:00Great comments, ladies. I don't see anything f...Great comments, ladies. I don't see anything from the men, maybe they are not so au fait with recycling. I'm off to hide now, before they throw bricks at me.Chris Longmuirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02488093821886798927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-63193576887919237902016-01-19T10:45:11.134+00:002016-01-19T10:45:11.134+00:00Umpteen and some years ago, I went to a creative w...Umpteen and some years ago, I went to a creative writing course. One of the best things I learned was to take a piece of writing - story, dialogue, poem, whatever, and rewrite it in another form. I began by thinking it was nuts, and was quite irritated by it - but it has proved to be incredibly useful and I have recycled stories as plays, plays as stories, etc. Sometimes the first 'go' wasn't how it would sit best. Sometimes it has just been fun and mind-opening.Sandra Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761260568729338471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-12603384264735400292016-01-19T09:48:04.092+00:002016-01-19T09:48:04.092+00:00Great post, Chris. I've done quite a bit of re...Great post, Chris. I've done quite a bit of recycling down the years and I'm surprised more people don't try it. The Curiosity Cabinet began as a trilogy of plays for BBC radio, but then I rewrote it as a novel, changing the whole contemporary story in the process. My short story, Sardine Burial, was published in a magazine, but I rewrote it as a radio play and then did it differently, as a novel called Orange Blossom Love. My novel Ice Dancing began as a stage play called The Locker Room - it never got a production, sadly - but I liked the central idea and joined it up to something else. Writing a play can be a really good way to explore a particular idea or obsession without committing to something as complicated and demanding as a novel - often that's where it stops, but occasionally you know there's more to be said and thought about. Sometimes an idea just won't leave you alone! By the way - all those guys writing about plots are doing a bit of recycling of their own - Aristotle got there first! Catherine Czerkawskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14554969254207924049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-33203221779151730672016-01-19T08:20:53.577+00:002016-01-19T08:20:53.577+00:00I do recycle occasionally - mostly blog posts and ...I do recycle occasionally - mostly blog posts and the like. If no money is changing hands, I don't think that's a problem. There also tends to be a lot of 'residue' left over from the normal business of writing - research, plot elements that never made it to the final draft, deleted scenes, and so on - all of which could potentially form the basis of another story or a blog post. And, of course, if there really are only a certain number of basic plots, then everything we do involves recycling to some degree. I think what makes a writer unique, from my point of view at least, is the <i>way</i> he or she tells a story - his or her voice.Mari Biellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14221256993468150226noreply@blogger.com