Ask the Author: Jim Lucio
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Jim Lucio
When writing has come effortlessly for me it has been when I cared about what I was writing about. Never force it and always believe in what you're writing about.
For about a year I had my own art column in a bi-weekly newspaper and writing about art came easily because I believed in the artists I wrote about and could truly appreciate their work. Writing my first book, Toxic Rainbows, was similar. I'd never written at length on the subject of philosophy or creativity, yet it all came with little effort because I cared deeply about the subjects and had my own experiences to guide me.
The flipside of this were the years I spent sitting in cafés forcing dialogue and trying to churn out plays that went nowhere because I was unfocussed and wrote from an untethered place that had no anchor to anything I knew personally.
For about a year I had my own art column in a bi-weekly newspaper and writing about art came easily because I believed in the artists I wrote about and could truly appreciate their work. Writing my first book, Toxic Rainbows, was similar. I'd never written at length on the subject of philosophy or creativity, yet it all came with little effort because I cared deeply about the subjects and had my own experiences to guide me.
The flipside of this were the years I spent sitting in cafés forcing dialogue and trying to churn out plays that went nowhere because I was unfocussed and wrote from an untethered place that had no anchor to anything I knew personally.
Jim Lucio
The idea itself came with age and the contrast of experiencing life as a child of Generation X and as an adult of the world that we live in today. It was the extreme opposites of living pre- and post-internet and reflecting on the advantages and disadvanges of each and how we are profoundly effected by influences around us.
I began to take notice of everything that had changed just within my lifetime, from communication, diet, values and even our own identities and what we stood for. Having an advantage of viewing life pre- and post-internet was a window on the world that I needed to write about before it was forgotten or history rewritten.
I began to take notice of everything that had changed just within my lifetime, from communication, diet, values and even our own identities and what we stood for. Having an advantage of viewing life pre- and post-internet was a window on the world that I needed to write about before it was forgotten or history rewritten.
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