KJB Rickards
My Story from Twisted50 vol 1: Spellings
Born in 1977 at the local mental health institute. Writer of fables, the fantastic, the fun and the Fortean.
My Links: Twitter // Facebook // Create50
profile
My Twisted50 Blog Posts
PATIENCE or the Long (and Often Convoluted) Journey and Evolution of a Two Page Twisted 50 Story by Kris Rickards
Do you remember that George Harrison song?
♫ It's gonna take time,
A whole lot of precious time ♫
Turns out he was a bit of a prophet.
Often you hear writing gurus, mentors and lecturers preaching about how everything takes time in this writing malarkey. Things like, "it takes ten-thousand hours to become good at writing", or
"it takes an average of X years for a script to reach the screen" (and of course, for the latter, only if it has gone through numerous rewrites and stages of rejection).