Ask the Author: D.E. Fraley
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D.E. Fraley
The way people let you jump to the front of queues, buy you drinks, give you free tickets to things, and allow you to spout drivel from time to time. Okay, well, the drivel bit is true.
D.E. Fraley
Start. Stick with it. Ignore the inner critic. Get work / art on the page. There's always time (and help) for editing and re-writing later on. Your confidence will grow by proving (to yourself) that you can get your thoughts into words and generate a complete draft.
D.E. Fraley
I've made a vague start on a spiritual memoir. Also, recognising that Phil Grimm's Progress contains some fairly challenging scientific and philosophical references / sections, I'm percolating ideas for a 'gentler' myth, more in the spirit of (and aspiring to the quality of!) Hesse's Siddhartha or Coelho's The Alchemist.
D.E. Fraley
I get inspired by reading great writing and imagining bringing my ideas to life with the same art as my favourite authors.
D.E. Fraley
It started last summer, a week after returning from a camper van trip with my partner to Holland and Denmark. I often have wakeful periods in the middle of the night. Those periods began to fill with ideas for a story - in mythic form. I'd recently re-read Parzival and the Stone from Heaven, and I pictured a spiritual seeker with little self-knowledge, on a quest to discover himself.
I'd read lots of nonfiction about Taoism, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta and non-dualism more generally, but I'd never come across a modern allegorical approach. In my less humble moments, I imagined penning a cross between Parzival, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Tao of Pooh and Sophie's World. My aim was a fictional work that illuminated, entertaining along the way.
I'd read lots of nonfiction about Taoism, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta and non-dualism more generally, but I'd never come across a modern allegorical approach. In my less humble moments, I imagined penning a cross between Parzival, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Tao of Pooh and Sophie's World. My aim was a fictional work that illuminated, entertaining along the way.
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