I've recently taken up writing again, after a year or two's break. So I'm a little way into the first chapter of what's basically a hippy novel. The goal I have in mind is to convey the hippy way of thinking subtly throughout the novel. I don't want to post it up on here, but if anyone's interested in reading and critiquing it, I'd be happy to email it to you. Peace. eace:
Thanks you guys, I'm not on my home computer at the moment, but I'll email it to each of you when I'm done. eace:
Just to be an elitist bastard again: I find a lot of "hippie" writing to be fairly ham-fisted and a bit devoid of any real, deep content. This is not in any way a prejudgment of what you've written. Just thought I'd say, you know: I'll definitely give it some honest criticism.
Yes, as in to gravitate away from material possessions and the like and to aim for peace and love, etc. Zorba - I noticed that too...that's actually why I wanted this critiqued...I wanted to make sure I'm not off to a bad start.
Sometimes it's nice to get someone else's approval, whether it really means anything or not And another note on what I was saying before. Hippie stuff doesn't have to necessarily be 'hippie' in content, to the extent that a lot of that stuff seems to be. You can write a hippie story (a story with 'hippie' values) that doesn't star flower children on Haight-Ashbury in 1967. You know? Kerouac is one of the most respected 'hippie' authors, as you are probably well aware. On The Road, to my recollection, contained very little of that kind of thing. I guess it was written before that stuff got big. That's one of the 'seeds' of the whole movement; those seeds might be better to focus on than the mainstream style/movement that grew out of them. Go for where the depth is, not the most in-your-face 'hippie' stuff. The heart and soul of that whole movement came out of guys like Kerouac and Ginsberg, before it was all about sex and drugs. Not that those didn't play a role, of course
