Great Minds Think Alike ...I can only hope!
I'm writing again. At least I think I am... Around the winter solstice my mother got me another copy of "The Artist's Way". After grumbling about how trite it was and that I don't need anything like that I had the realization that since my daughter was born my art/writing has most certainly taken a back burner placement on the stovetop of my priorities. The results being that I get grumpy faster with little for a creative outlet. So I took a broom to my preconceptions and cracked open the book, determined to make a go of it...
The first two weeks were good. I did the morning pages and published a few of my "core dumps" here and I could tell that my creative juices were beginning to bubble a bit. Then...it happened. What exactly it was I can't say, but this character came marching into my imagination and started telling me her story. It all happened so fast that it was all I could do to try and jot down some notes to record some of those issues and ideas.
It's the middle of April now and I'm more than 400 pages into her story and although it's only a rough draft, there are a few tasty morsels in there just waiting to be polished up. I'm writing every lunch for almost an hour, averaging three hours before bed and a few times a week I get a couple of stray hours here and there to jot down ideas or flesh out plotlines. I've been afraid to mention this writing project before now, convinced that as soon as I said anything about writing again that the well of ideas would dry up and roll away like a tumbleweed in the desert breeze.
Today on Neil Gaiman's blog he answers a question related to page numbering and in doing so shows us his journal and some of his writing habits. Whee! I realize that he and I have very similar habits when it comes to writing. Hopefully it's a sign that great minds think alike!!!
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Covers
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First page labels with title and author name.
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Yes...that is Cthulhu... (no he's not in the story. He just helps me think)
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I don't have any spiffy little tombstones for my page markers showing that I've reached the end of a chapter. Heck, I don't have page numbers at all! Didn't see the need for them since it'll get dumped into a computer at some point and that friendly little machine will number the pages for me. But I liked the fact that he handwrites his stories in his journal with quill/nib pen!
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Hand written in quill pen.
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