Writing - Creative buzz

 Irrespective of the way your creativity takes form, there is an indisputable reaction when you have finally completed a piece. I recall finishing my first novel and seeing it in print; there was a definite buzz. 

As a corollary, I am advertising my 5th novel as I've had to do a reprint because of a request for a copy so it is now available on Amazon. 

Just go to amazon.co.uk and search under 'david l atkinson'. 

Blurb

The story is a speculative journey into a possible future that may lie ahead of us all. There is evidence that such a future may not be impossible. We have been warned that unless we increase the ability to produce electricity there could be power cuts in the next ten years. Our modern day lives are permeated through with the need for electricity and its production. Although Cessation could be categorised as a dystopian story I find that rather a negative word and the purpose of writing the tale is to allow elements of hope in a seemingly desperate situation. The story begins in 2023 a couple of years after the lights go out for the last time. Our group of survivors are thrown together on a farm in the low Pennines north of the M62 motorway and within striking distance of a number of northern towns which could prove useful for supplies. Initially the group is small and live on a farm called Serendipity but as time passes the size of the group waxes and wanes for a variety of reasons.

Trump World 

The type of art that you produce will control the frequency and number of times you feel this 'buzz'. With my novels, I almost feel that they are like extensions of my family, like children. In the case of my sketching, which I do for fun rather than any other reason, it depends on why I've produced the sketch.

The sketch above was a cartoon I produced just after Trump was elected. It resembles Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The elephants represent 4 billionaires, on their backs is the flat earth with the Gulf of Mexico; and, in the howdah, Trump as a clownfish. The cartoon is as I imagined it, and I was pleased with the outcome. 

Keep creating, folks. 

God Bless