Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

5 Reasons Creative Writing Remains Relevant & other stuff

30-Day Blogging Challenge – day Fourteen
Prompt: Give us your opinion on ways that creative writing can remain relevant long into the 21st century.

Maybe I am a little naïve and hopeful, but I, personally, don’t even see this as an issue. I know the sales of physical books and writings must have gone down since the dawn of ebooks and audio books. But surely, people are still reading and always will. However, perhaps younger generations will stop – maybe that is where my naivety comes in?

Nevertheless, I still don’t see an issue with the future of creative writing. Here’s why:

1. When the world feels a little bit shit, people look to escape. Creative writing isn’t just about novels and poetry, it covers things like play and film scripts, too. So, the world will always look to creative writing to offer it a way out for a few hours.
2. As society develops, creative writers will continue to get new ideas by studying and exploring the human race (or, indeed, animal kingdom). So, unless we all get sucked into a black hole soon, I reckon we’ll be okay for story ideas.
3. Everyone loves tales and stories; it seems to be part of human nature. Since we live in a society that is, whether you like it or not, ruled by the media, I can’t see this ending any time soon.
4. As long as people keep writing, people will keep reading. As long as people keep reading, people will keep writing.
5. Finally, as someone has just pointed out to me on Twitter, Shakespeare has lasted this long… end of argument right there! Boom!

In other news:

I realise that my blogs haven’t quite been up to my usual standard . This is embarrassing since I’ve just been nominated for a Quill award for this stuff . But there is a reason and I wanted to explain it. I’m not always honest in real life, but I do try and be honest here. So, I need to continue that.

As I said on Monday, I went to see my Doctor. I mostly went about my foot. Over Christmas it started hurting quite a lot again. I shrugged it off for a few weeks but finally decided I needed to do something. It turns out that I have acute Achilles Tendonitis. Presumably due to the way the cast my foot back in August.

While I was at the Doctors, I decided I needed to stop avoiding things. So, I made the decision to ask to go back on anti-depressants. Don’t worry; I’m not absolutely, horrendously miserable. I just need something to give me a kick up the arse.

If I’m honest, I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I noticed ages ago that to-do lists were becoming bigger than they needed to be (in my head that is). This is also why I haven’t finished a book since July – I was a bit slow to notice that GIANT sign, huh?
Then at the weekend I woke up every hour panicking about random things like crashing my car. I just thought, “this is ridiculous!”

So, I just told my Dr I wanted to back on them and he didn’t argue. I’ve only just taken the first one because I got really bad nausea last time and needed to be ok for work today. Its no big deal though, I kinda knew I’d go back on at some point.
But if you’re wondering why my prompt responses were so crap and literal at the moment, that’s why: my brain just ain't working!

Therefore, a doozy of a prompt tomorrow would be awesome, Fivesixer . Something we can get our teeth stuck into, please?