Ask the Author: David L. Hatton
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David L. Hatton
In all honesty, I must answer with my poem:
UPON WRITER'S BLOCK
My poetry may seem to mock
that ghost perceived as writer’s block;
but till I feel the Muse’s knock—
to shake and rouse my mental stock
or make creative gates unlock—
regardless of my whining squawk,
no ships of verse sail into dock,
despite how long I watch the clock.
So, when I hit a witless rock—
some sterile, empty stumbling block
to inspiration’s aftershock—
where verses fail to interlock
or rhyming sheep fast flee my flock
of lines that echo double-talk,
I don a paint-bespattered smock
and play with brush or pastel chalk.
— David L. Hatton 4/9/2019
UPON WRITER'S BLOCK
My poetry may seem to mock
that ghost perceived as writer’s block;
but till I feel the Muse’s knock—
to shake and rouse my mental stock
or make creative gates unlock—
regardless of my whining squawk,
no ships of verse sail into dock,
despite how long I watch the clock.
So, when I hit a witless rock—
some sterile, empty stumbling block
to inspiration’s aftershock—
where verses fail to interlock
or rhyming sheep fast flee my flock
of lines that echo double-talk,
I don a paint-bespattered smock
and play with brush or pastel chalk.
— David L. Hatton 4/9/2019
David L. Hatton
For me, with health conditions that limit physical activity, the best thing about writing is that it requires so little physical exertion.
David L. Hatton
Read much more than you write, but to not write to copy the style of those you read.
David L. Hatton
I currently have an idea for a nonfiction book on the purpose and destiny of our God-planned human nature as body-spirit beings. But I'm doing research on what has already been written before I launch into it seriously.
David L. Hatton
I have had poems come to me in dreams, and sometimes even the idea for an essay. My own reading of Scripture, the poetry of others, or a nonfiction work that stimulates a new way of thinking, can inspire a sermon, a poem or my own essay. In fiction-writing, the process of thinking a story through stretches my imagination. But there are times I feel God motivate and works with me on a written message, but that is more an enablement than an inspiration.
David L. Hatton
From having drawn in a figure drawing class myself, as well as in open sessions with nude models, I thought of a short story about a guy who is shocked to find his new girlfriend is an art model. But the conflict of this discovery, with nudity being a taboo in his Christian understanding, became more and more complex. As the characters I created took over the story, it grew into chapters, and the chapters into a novel.
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