Ask the Author: Henry M. Piironen
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Henry M. Piironen
I remove myself from the immediacy of the primary works. I write only what comes into my mind. Scattered and without a primary aim or purpose. Poetry, essays or words of passion inflamed. Andre Breton's automation writing is the most useful tool to purge self-censorship and overly critical consciousness towards writing. The main thing is to step out from the planned sphere of writing, wash out the stress by giving creativity space to fulfill everything it pleases and humbly return inside the storm of the sphere.
Henry M. Piironen
This question is absurd. All that I am is a writer in minute degrees. As a Finnish author who has taken upon himself to write in English, it has to be the learning of the philosophy and the emotional tones of the English language. It has three times the amount of words with emotional specificity that I feel myself more like a composer than an author. The thrill and the reward is to compose the thoughts into the aesthetics of my theory of art. A symphony of visualizations played out by the instruments of the words. And being in the middle of that artistic experience as a mere conductor is what sums up the totality of my being a writer.
This question gives me the opportunity to apologize about my grammatical errors. I want to be as the great authors of the past were. Without editors who would make Charles Dickens' and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's works something they were not originally created as. Where was the proofreader of Homer or Aristotle? The editor of William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe? I see nothing more than censorship and greed of the publishers to deny the challenge of learning the fine points of language. It is one of the best things about being a writer to reclaim the virtue and talent that belonged to the greatest before us.
This question gives me the opportunity to apologize about my grammatical errors. I want to be as the great authors of the past were. Without editors who would make Charles Dickens' and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's works something they were not originally created as. Where was the proofreader of Homer or Aristotle? The editor of William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe? I see nothing more than censorship and greed of the publishers to deny the challenge of learning the fine points of language. It is one of the best things about being a writer to reclaim the virtue and talent that belonged to the greatest before us.
Henry M. Piironen
Systemize your efforts as much as you can. Create chapter outlines first and proceed from there even to creating outlines of the paragraphs. These outlines are just as fluid as your creativity. Moving pieces to be changed and altered. Change in the continuum at one point easily altered in effect to the following. The volatile creativity. The passion of the tekken for dreaming something into reality organized. The mastery of knowledge and thought well refined.
Henry M. Piironen
My art is about the deepest essence of being. I doubt I will never reach the existential sphere in the way I reached it through the Psalms of Mortality. At the moment I am working on a dictionary of personality traits, The Black and White Notebook, Forsaken Love and the Lifestyle of Peace. The Black and White Notebook will be my attempt to break through the timidness of self-censorship and face the most controversial issues of our time in completely us vs. them viewpoints. I will write both sides with equal flame of my passion, for and for of diametrical opposites. In the front lines of fiction, you just have to wait and see.
Henry M. Piironen
My imagination hosts around thirty ideas for literature at a time. With the limits offered by the transience of the moment I have to choose what literature pieces I will live as. When I'm done, I burn the original manuscript as the of book is meant to live by my readers. So how do I get inspired? It's more a matter of joining the stream of creativity and the allure of its sirens are just too overwhelming to resist as I lack the conviction of Odysseys to sail steadfast. Most of the days are to work as a galley slave for my master the art. So why do it? After few moments of resistance I am in the timeless netherworld of creation where the great Dali's Persistence of Memory is the reality. It is my place of worship of existence where I feel the most alive.
Henry M. Piironen
From lucid dreaming. Just the other day I saw Faust pulling himself from the non-existence of death into life by the strength and power of his love.
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