Saturday, 30 April 2011

if you feel like you never belong, then think of a time when you know you were most relaxed.
  Whether it was a place or if it was a room in a house you once lived int.
   I know that i might sound really stupid, but trust me; you will find a place you will feel most at home.
   I have that feeling right now.
   When you write you can produce the best ideas when you are calm and comfortable.
   I have found that being in the fiends of the countryside about forty five minutes away from me is the best.
    I know this because i have spent days that add up to week that add up to months there. When i feel the light breeze on my skin as i walk through the fiend. Or the heat on my skin in the early morning. Even when i feel the drench of the rain wash away the discomfort of 'writers block' as i walk the dog. I feel at home there. I feel like i know my place there. When I'm not there i feel a certain emptiness in my heart, i never knew what it was, but now i know and i cant help but bask in its emptiness and feel lost.

What I'm saying is that if you go somewhere where you feel relaxed and calm and ready for you mind to drift amongst the strangest of ideas and wackiest twists of your characters life.
   I might be speaking complete and utter rubbish but i know that my place is out there and i know where it is and that i would kill to be there and live there for the rest of my life if i could.
   Ask yourself one question: Where did you feel most relaxed?
   If it is as home in your bed room, then great that is perfect, but for other it might be harder. But i know that you will fit in somewhere at some point.

It doesn't have to be a million miles away, like Japan or America, you can find somewhere closer than that. Whether it is the woods down the road. Your back garden or a room in your house. No one is going to judge you because of where you feel more relaxed. if anything you should be proud of it.Being sat in the same room is not the best for some people, it will work for others, but for the people who cant just sit in one room, on one chair looking at the same walls, them please get out there, grab yourself a pen and a pad and get yourself out of the house to find your place. Your heart will lead your feet.
   I know my place. Do you know yours?
Thank you,
J.A.M

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

As you listen to songs there is always that one that you love and cant bet enough of. No matter how loud you put it, it will forever just glide along your skin. The lyrics will roll of the tongue of the artist.
It will forever leave you inspired and forever warm. no matter how many times you listen to it, it can never get boring, you will never get sick of listening to it.
It should be like that with the words of a novel, whether you are writing it or reading it.
You will know when it is good or when it is bad. You read it and you will listen to the author telling the story, not you reading it.
You will feel warmed by the love or the cold of the hate. Confused but the crimes committed and the understanding of the loss.
To the people who are inspired by this, let the words roll of your tongue as you write when you what to hear and what you want to read.
My friend told me that you should write what you don't see on the book shelves, if there isn't a novel out there that you want to read, then write it, make it your own.
Don't let the hurdles of the editing faze you. you never know you might enjoy it, i know i found it fun in places and in others it was a little annoying, but i got passed it and it's well on it's way to getting published.
When you know you have got it right it warms you and you know that you have got it right and you know that it can be the best it can be, well until you write another one that is. You never know what there is beneath the normality of life.
No matter what just let the writer inside talk through you, don't shut it away, you never know what you might create.
Thank you.
J.A.M

Sunday, 10 April 2011

Perfecting a story is like working you way to cut down a tree.
At frist you start with the outer layer in the tree. Which is like getting the puncuation right.
Then you dig and cut a little deeper. you look at the story line.
Then you get a little bit deeper and then you find you are growing much more confident in you work and being able to cut down the tree.
But what you dont realise it that the stump is the hardest part. The stump is the where the purest confidence glows that is the time when you are just about getting published.
You might get eevrything sorted out along with the blurb, front cover, aknoledgements and dedications. But what is the hardest is having the heart to get it published.
You might want to be an author so much. But you need to consider that you are doing it for the right reasons.
There is not really a lot of money that comes in to it, but then again you the pride that someone around the world knows your name.
On the plus side, you will have the knoledge that you have done something some people think is completely crazy and virtually impossible.
But my biggest advantage, it is to know that someone somewhere will be enjoying the same thing as me and to know that i have reachone one of my goals in life. I dont care about the money, yeah you need it, but writing should be a hobby, not a job. I enjoy it that way.
Spending my free time reviling the trust about a mystery and uncovering the trust in my own heart. Or producing a monster inside of something and changing it to something amazing and new. 
They are my reasins, befre you publish anything think of the reasons and think about is they are the right reasons.
Take control of your own life, whether you are sixty five or twenty five, who cares, if it's what you want then you will know.
Thank you.
J.A.M

Friday, 8 April 2011

Have you ever had that feeling like you need to do something so bad, everything around you says that you think you should do it?

Let me explain what i mean. When you have a craving for a muffin at work, all you see is either foor or another muffin that someone else has. So that make you want one even more.
Or if you are like me, wanting to write something so far out of your comfort zone you dont think that you can do it. But you see that is the beautiful cleaverness of the world. It will give you subtle hints that first to set off a little chain reacation of thoughts and ideas.

But then the hits get bigger until you read about what you think you might do, or watch a TV show about what you want to write about and again, it gives you a chain reaction of thoughts and ideas about everything. The plot, the character, the victims, the hearo's ot the criminals.

If i was to give any advice it would be, to go with the little hints and ideas that arei n your head. Whether you are typing or hand writing, it doesn't matter, you will get the ideas down either way.

Let the little hints spark off everything and let them speak through you and get your ideas turned into discription, speech or a title. It does not matter. Just let the ideas come to you. Let the hints press against you until you feel like your going to explode with ideas and ways you can twist comething to how you want and how to fool the viewers.
Thank you universe for being inspiration
Thank you
J.A.M

Saturday, 2 April 2011


What if someone told you that writing and typing is just the same as composing a song. 
 Your fingers work in the same way; they are each moved to your soul and how they want to be moved not by what you want them to do. They move past the keys on the piano or on to different keys on the key board. 
Each time they hit a new note or a new letter, the song will grow stronger and harder and they will compose something so beautiful people will never forget about it.
Never give up on what you are doing, never give up on what you are writing or composing, never forget who you are and if that person is meant to be a write of novels, poems or music. It does not matter because it will speak through you. 
No matter what people think, no matter what people say to you. All that matters is what you think and what you say. How you said it will only matter to you. 
Forget about what people think and let your fingers do what they want because they know what they want be and what they want is what your heart wants and it is the one thing that ever matter. 
No matter what people may say they will never stop moving to the beat of your heat. 
Never for get who you are, never let go of who you are and god forbid anything happens to you that makes you forget always remember to listen to your heart because it will wake you up inside and it will make you see what you have missed and who you are inside. 
J.A.M