You can’t make a story happen. Or at least, I can’t. Sometimes though, all the wrong directions and false starts and pounding against the locked door are what it takes to break through. Tonight I figured out how to get the protagonists out of town. I figured out how one protagonist can use her powers for well, not really good, but at least not evil. I figured out the antagonist’s back story and motivation. I Read more…
After weeks of diligent outlining, and a pretty bad case of writer’s block, this morning on the way to work I finally got the breakthrough I needed. I can’t start writing until I find my way into the story, and finally it all fell into place. Not a word of which was in the outline. Not the plot, not the events, not the scene that set the stage for the outlined novel, not the implications Read more…
You ever have one of those days where you do all of the things? Today was that day. First I went on a trail ride in the woods with friends at the stable where Gus the horse is kept. We meandered around and came out in one field and saw a feral hog, which hightailed it out of there. Jennifer reminded us to keep an eye out for the rest of the herd, or horde, Read more…