I write fiction sometimes. All of it is currently only for myself, i.e. private, more out of a lack of coherent material than a fear of rejection. I'm looking forward to when my brain finally puts out stories longer than 900 words; it's a running theme that I write something one night, like it, and then never touch it or look at it again. It's good for catharsis, but not for my long term aspirations of publication (right now I don't even have the dinner parties, just lots of Dominos pizza with my girlfriend). It's fun though, even if I'm not taking it as seriously as I could. I've made the decision to quit my job and do a Creative Writing MA next year to give myself a much needed push. I also am a 23-year-old English man who loves hip-hop, especially cerebral tracks like Jay Electronica's 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'. It's not THAT strange, especially considering how much Kanye and Jay-z (Kanye Stan here) dominate the pop culture over here in a lot of ways, but I often get confused looks when people see my Spotify.
Cool! What themes do your stories use typically?
Anxiety is the simple answer, solely because I know it pretty well. People in my day to day life tend to think of me as a mellow guy; a girl at work has a photo of me with the definition of 'nonchalant' pinned next to it. Nope. I'm on seroxat after having anxiety attacks during my third year of university. An example: the last thing I wrote was an interpretation of Telemachus as a worry-ridden man who watches his slaves talk to each other to calm his busy mind. Every day he walks across his grounds and becomes trapped in a bubble of liquid that seeps out through cracks in his skull. He drowns. It's a not-so-subtle metaphor for what the attacks felt like. It's very strange typing this out, as I don't normally talk about it except in very abstract terms. Have you ever tried writing? I ask because the maps seem like a creative outlet.
Never really gave it a shot, though I do write music, so that helps with stuff like that.
Do you have any online to link to? No worries if not, I'm just curious.
Not currently, as my guitarist has all the raw files on his laptop. Kind of like the cure meets blink 182 ish if I had to categorize it.