Sigh
I've just hit a rut. I have lost my passion for movies it seems. I have still been churning out imdb user reviews, but mostly for television. Stuff like Tales from the Darkside, The Twilight Zone (both the 60 and 80s version), even Charlie's Angels. Doing these can be laborious, yet I have such a passion for writing, especially for entertainment, that I press on. Life has a tendency to drag us down, those who have this thriving creative energy inside that wants to express itself, and movies with television can be a sort of device to unleash such energies. I hope October produces that lost love that has been absent for a while. A return to the horror genre is what I desire, even if life has sucked away that joy I used to have.
Don't know what's been eating away at your own joy, but, oddly enough, a joy-sucking personal crisis of my own has stunted my movie-stuff writing for the better part of a year, now. I haven't lost any passion for it; I just lost the ability to do it (at first), then lost the ability to do it up to a standard I find acceptable. I will return to it. I'm already sort of veering that way. I wrote an actual full-blown review not too long ago, and I've restarted work on my own movie project. It's been a long, hard recovery, though. I need a subject on which I have something to say I decide is worth saying.
ReplyDeleteThat last is important, when it comes to servicing passion. You mostly do straight movie reviews, here. I don't write a lot of those myself. I try, instead, to find some movie-related subject on which I can offer some point of view. An appreciation of Joseph Lewis, a piece questioning Hammer's place in cinematic history, a challenge to (thoughtless) critiques of SILIP, and so on. Ever think of writing some things in that vein? I've found that concocting a good ol' fashioned polemical argument on some controversial subject for which I have a passion can, in particular, awaken a sleeping enthusiasm.
I have indeed thought of writing about other topics than just movies. I might eventually if something inspires me.
ReplyDeleteHappens to all of us bud! I sometimes disappear for upwards of 6 months at a time from my blog (and just spent an entire year away from the IMDb boards). You do get burnt out after awhile, but sometimes taking some time off is the best thing you can do. Absense makes the heart grow fonder, right? Anyway, best wishes to you and hope things improve.
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