Kyle Kerr

Back In The Bo…

03/17/08 | My Writings | 0 Comments

London was amazing, and it was such a creatively invigorating place to be that I would love to be there on a more permanent basis.  I have always said that, once I am well off enough to afford it, I am going to buy a flat in London, and this trip only helped to cement that thought.  There was this little pub I found right near my hotel that seemed to have the perfect balance of synergy and charm/ambiance that made it a veritable melting pot for my imagination.  If only there was a way of transporting that place, as well as its employees and clientele (which added to the overall effectiveness of the place), to Boston, I would only be too happy…!  I guess I’m just going to have to find a similar place here.  Ah well.

While I was over there, I didn’t get as much writing done as I would have liked.  I mean, it was ridiculous of me to think that I wouldn’t be distracted by the lure of the city to have any significant amount of time to concentrate on writing.  (I guess I’ll have to go for an extended stay next time!) I was able to finish a short story I had been working on called Frozen Innocence, which is told from the point-of-view of a pedophile (who refuses to believe he IS one).  Now, before you start thinking weird and disgusting things about me, there was a point behind delving into such a character: one of the characters in my novel is abused as a child, and I wanted to see what would go into such abuse.  It was necessary for me to see what happens on the other side of abuse before I could effectively write it from the victim’s side of things, and I think this really helped.

As far as Simon goes, though, I haven’t had much time to work on him, unfortunately.  I think I just really hate the revision process.  If I sit down and start writing fresh, stuff flows, but when I go about revising something I wrote three years ago, the flow is more sludge than water.  I have heard many writers talk about the joys of revision, and how it’s their favorite part of the process.  Well, if only that were true for me.  When I write something, I usually edit as I go, so that the end result is usually fairly polished.  I put so much effort into THAT, that the thought of going back over it is often too much to handle.  I think I just need to get over it.  I mean, there are times when I enjoy it, but then there are other times…

School is going to end within the next month and a half, and I will never have to worry about going to classes again, and this excites me to no end.  I have always been about work, and school was only a means to that end.  I love to work; it’s when I’m happiest.  It is also a time of high productivity where my writing is concerned, because I don’t have tests and projects and papers looming over my head.  Work is work, and it stays in the office (at least for most people it does… but I’m not intending to be a lawyer any time soon), so I get a lot of ‘me’ time to work on my writing.  I know this is true because of past experiences… those two times I was on co-op (6-month full-time working periods during my four years at this school) were my best writing times in years.  It’s the schooling that bogs me down, and that’s going to end in May.  Thank god.

So, as ever I keep plodding along.  Hopefully I get some time to write soon, because Simon is getting restless.

Until next…

Kyle W. Kerr