Writing - Nothing new under the sun
There's nothing new under the sun, or is it that we just haven't found it yet?
There have been human type beings on this earth for around 200 000 years. We are primates and until yesterday there were only 6 types of primates on the planet.
[image error]Tapanuli Orang
Scientists announced yesterday that a 7th primate had been discovered, the Tapanuli Orang-u-Tan, which joins the Sumatran and Borneo species. As there are reckoned to be only around 800 left alive it goes immediately to the endangered species list.
Given the above information one must conclude that there are species that have lived and were never 'discovered' before they became extinct. Civilised man has only been around for 6000 years and as we are constantly discovering new species of dinosaur from fossils and insects that are alive, then we still really don't know this planet that well. In fact if you watch David Attenborough's Blue Planet II that began last Sunday BBC1 at 20:00 there is 2/3rds of the planet that we know very little about.
So when we write our stories, where creatures we include are concerned we can be as freely creative as we want to be. In a sense it is a licence to create without fear of criticism.
It reminded me of Lee Child's comment about writing to entertain not to win awards. David Walliams, TV actor and presenter, has written children's books very successfully and believes that we should write for enjoyment. I couldn't agree more. If I found writing a chore I wouldn't do it. The beauty of it is the more you write the greater your skills develop and so there is that reward also. So you aspiring authors stop aspiring and get writing.
God Bless
There have been human type beings on this earth for around 200 000 years. We are primates and until yesterday there were only 6 types of primates on the planet.
[image error]Tapanuli Orang
Scientists announced yesterday that a 7th primate had been discovered, the Tapanuli Orang-u-Tan, which joins the Sumatran and Borneo species. As there are reckoned to be only around 800 left alive it goes immediately to the endangered species list.
Given the above information one must conclude that there are species that have lived and were never 'discovered' before they became extinct. Civilised man has only been around for 6000 years and as we are constantly discovering new species of dinosaur from fossils and insects that are alive, then we still really don't know this planet that well. In fact if you watch David Attenborough's Blue Planet II that began last Sunday BBC1 at 20:00 there is 2/3rds of the planet that we know very little about.
So when we write our stories, where creatures we include are concerned we can be as freely creative as we want to be. In a sense it is a licence to create without fear of criticism.
It reminded me of Lee Child's comment about writing to entertain not to win awards. David Walliams, TV actor and presenter, has written children's books very successfully and believes that we should write for enjoyment. I couldn't agree more. If I found writing a chore I wouldn't do it. The beauty of it is the more you write the greater your skills develop and so there is that reward also. So you aspiring authors stop aspiring and get writing.
God Bless
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