I’ll get back to the Bloganovella tomorrow. I’ve been thinking a lot about the new story I’m working on; how I’m outlining a chapter a day in the way I did with the last one and expecting to go back through the thing again and again–also as I did with the last one. I believe this process works for me. It is hard, because I don’t quite know what I want this story to be. I wrote a very pretty 1000 wd opening scene and now I have the weight of that to carry forward throughout this thing. Only, I only had that one full scene and the rest is glimpses like the space of a blink only when I close my eyes I see the world of this story and I love what I see.
I’m trying to move towards writing more and more in this fashion. I am trying to give more of myself to the words and the worlds and to create as much as I can and see what sticks. As part of the writing time I started a folder of short stories that included the place keeper for a short version of this novel and I don’t really even know what that would look like. I am excited by that. I am hoping to see my aspirations made material.
Some Thoughts:
- So, here we are on a monday and at the start of this new week I feel refreshed and happy and as if the world around me doesn’t hate me so much right now.
- Knock on wood, right?