{"id":14774,"date":"2022-02-02T16:42:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=14774"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:42:49","slug":"brain-farts-about-deranged-writing-storytelling-c-s-lewis-sly-stallone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/brain-farts-about-deranged-writing-storytelling-c-s-lewis-sly-stallone\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain farts about deranged writing, storytelling, C.S. Lewis, & Sly Stallone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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C.S. Lewis on his Narnia books:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m afraid there will not be any more of them. You see, once a story stops telling itself to me inside my head\u2013like a tap turned off\u2013I can\u2019t go on. And if I tried to, it would only sound forced. Anyway, seven is a good number.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 C.S. Lewis, 1959<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s a lesson there that applies even to copywriting:<\/p>\n

Once a story is done, that’s it, shut up.<\/p>\n

On the other hand:<\/p>\n

I thought that was the case with my Enoch Wars novels.<\/p>\n

Figured I’d write 7 and be done.<\/p>\n

Then, out of the blue a couple years ago, I wrote an 8th novel and that is how the Omega Edition (all 7 plus the bonus 8th, along with appendices, a timeline, etc) came into being. And that 8th novel is the one I am by far the most proud of, with the others being something I enjoy but frequently wince at in a \u201cdayem, what the hell madness was going on in my brain?\u201d way, with the weird & deranged images my mind spewed out when writing them, as I get the audio book files (they are all being turned into audio books by a professional voiceover artist who I found amongst my Email Players of the horde \u2014 i.e., I always try to hire from within the fanbase\u2026) and I hear what I wrote. And lately, I\u2019ve been getting the bug to write another book for the Enoch Wars series. Although I may put that off until writing some epic fantasy or else some fiction based on my Villains books that’ve all been on my mind.<\/p>\n

Another thought:<\/p>\n

Been on a Sylvester Stallone kick lately.<\/p>\n

Including reading his book (multiple times), his interviews, watching his movies, documentaries, etc.<\/p>\n

He never intended to write any Rocky movies after the first one.<\/p>\n

The world would be a much duller place, and a much worse place IMO, if he’d stubbornly and lazily decided not to write\/direct more.<\/p>\n

The first Rocky movie proves art can change lives.<\/p>\n

I often wonder how many pre-diabetic and other “cardiac events waiting to happen” types were inspired by that movie to get off the couch, seize control of their health, and stave off horrible obesity-caused evils like amputated limbs, strokes “trapping” them inside their own bodies (like what happened to the late Patrice O’Neal), orphaned kids, broken marriages, and the list goes on.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what the moral here is.<\/p>\n

Except, never say never\u2026<\/p>\n

For info on my Email Players Newsletter go here:<\/p>\n

www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Settle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C.S. Lewis on his Narnia books: \u201cI\u2019m afraid there will not be any more of them. You see, once a story stops telling itself to me inside my head\u2013like a tap turned off\u2013I can\u2019t go on. And if I tried to, it would only sound forced. Anyway, seven is a good number.\u201d \u2014 C.S. Lewis, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building","7":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","8":"category-inner-game","9":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}