My new book, 'HOPE NEVER KNEW HORIZON', is due to be released any moment now and today, posted up on the website Books From Scotland, there's an extract from the book to give you a flavour of the thing. The book is being published by Taproot press - it has now been printed and copies are being dispatched even as I type this. Eeeeeeeek!!!!!
https://booksfromscotland.com/2024/04/hope-never-knew-horizon-by-douglas-bruton/
Some years ago I posted this link to a TED talk given by 'Eat, Pray, Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert. It's a fun talk about what I think of as the creative subconscious. It holds the idea that the creative genius is something beyond our control and so is something we cannot really take responsibility for. It's an interesting idea. Things happen in my writing - sometimes clever things and when I am called on to explain them I defer to my creative subconscious because that's the best explanation I have. And how do I access my creative subconscious? No idea. It either happens or it doesn't. I am not sure I have any control over it. This sort of fits with Gilbert's idea of how it works for her except she takes the creative force out of herself as a mysterious something in the air and maybe it helps her when she's writing and maybe it doesn't. Give this talk a listen. It's fun too.
https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius
