Opening the imagination - expressing the heart
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Opening the imagination - expressing the heart
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What do you think of the dumbing down of occult writing these days?
Most of the books out now are complete bollocks. But I suspect a couple of mine are too. Yet finding the decent ones, and learning discrimination, is almost part of the initiation process. I'm not really against dumbing-down, as such. After all I'm an unapologetic Sun reader. It's the lack of originality that troubles me, and the cutesy-poo attitudes. William G. Gray, who had an enormous influence on me as a teenager, once told me that if I had to write books on magick then I should at least try to make them original. So I've tried to do something different with every one, if only so the shade of the Old Sod doesn't have a go at me from the other side. Personally, I like writers who have the balls to be different, however bizarre or extreme their ideas might seem to the present dogmatists of the New Age movements.
Do you have anything else in the pipeline, any other plans?
Well, I've left the door open for a follow-up to Spirits of the Stones but to be honest I haven't had any sort of inner twinge yet. Nor any notion as to how I might make the next one different. If l can't make it different I won't bother. Plus, whatever inner contacts might have pressured me in the past are spectacularly absent now. Maybe they won't come back, I can't say. So I press on as ever with my weird and unpublishable little novels which get me rave rejections, but no publisher willing to take the chance. That's not a complaint (well I suppose it is, really) because I have a decent life in the real world, doing a job where I have many friends and a lot of laughs.God I've found this very hard to do. Taken me bloody hours, and missed the football. The other Alan Richardson, dark brooding bastard that he is, could probably have rattled it off in 20 minutes, and sounded a whole lot more intelligent. Sorry 'bout that, folks!
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