And so the story begins…
Ah, yes. At last. I’ve started my new manuscript. It’s a story that’s been composting for a while, while I’ve been doing other stuff. But the thing with stories is they have their own time and when they’re ready to come, then they must come. I was seized the other morning with an “I have to, I can’t delay a moment longer. This story is coming whether I like it or not.”
I’ve learned to heed those calls – stories need honouring. If you don’t honour them they drift away, sneak off in the night when you’re asleep and you wake up one day and wonder what happened to that idea, that absolutely brilliant idea you had.
So, the writing has started and as always, the first few chapters are proving to be a little slow going as I find my way into the story. I’m hoping though, as with my other novels, this one, once past the get-going mark, will take off and live a life of its own, with me feverishly bent over my keyboard, churning out the words.
How long this one will take to write, I’ve no idea, it depends how well the story and I meld, how long we take to come into being as one.
Yes, I know, I write as though the story has a life of its own. It does, all stories do.
And the muse, I see, has reappeared in her diaphanous pink feathery baby-doll nightgown and fluffy pink high-heeled slippers, armed with her nail file. Goodness alone knows why my muse looks like this. I could have understood purple robes and lots of dangly silver jewelry, or an old guy with silver hair and beard down to his middle. But no, I get Diaphanous Daphne. Ouch! No, okay, that’s not really her name and I can’t tell you her name because that will give you power over her and then you might jinx everything.
So, for the next while expect me to be vague and abstract has I disappear into another world.
What? You want to know what it’s about? I haven’t a clue. I never do. That’s all part of the adventure. I write what I must. All I think I can tell you is that I think it’s for young adults and the genre is supernatural – maybe… You’ll just have to watch this space. So will I!
27 comments:
hey Atyllah, best of luck with your writing.
hope to catch inside scoop of your story sometime sooon
I'd love a rough read when you're ready!
Thanks, Rambler!
Hmm, you might have to wait a bit yet, Baino! :-)
Ah, my very favourite type of story! Have you read any of Celia Rees' supernatural stuff?
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Good luck with the writing! Mine seems to be in remission...
;-)
Funny, you know, Addy, I keep looking at Celia Rees' stuff and yet I've never read any - I think now is a good time to start!
Thanks, Kyklops - never mind, it's probably just an intermission! Your muse is probably on an extended holiday - they do that, muses... :-)
:D.
More power to your muse then! yYu must tell her how absolutely lovely she is. Even tho I havent seen her, I can see her through your writing.
Will be eagerly awaiting updates.
Oh trust me, Mystic Rose my life would be worth living if I didn't regularly tell her how absolutely lovely she is - she'd be chucking rotten eggs at me all the time if I didn't. She has views.
;-)
Oh joy - keep her sweet.
I'll try, Minxy, I'll try. Not really worth my life, if I don't!
;-)
Good luck with the writing -the hardest part is getting started and you're started - sounds exciting! And I love the idea of your muse being pink and fluffy - an alter ego?
Fwoooarrrr! I like diaphonous daphne! mine tend to be a bit gritty and grimy...
We-ell, I'm happy with the first chapter, Cailleach and am fighting with the second - but this I've learned is normal for me... I know from about Ch 3 to 4 onward it will flow as it's meant to.
And no, that muse is most definitely not an alter ego - the alter ego is yellow and feathery...
If you ask nicely, Jon, perhaps Diaphanous Daphne will deign to pay you a visit and flutter her eyelashes at you. Mind you I'm not sure if that will inspiration or distraction...
Have you tried some comparatively new chocolate by M+S, I wonder?? It's Swiss chocolate ( extra fine) White with Raspberry and VANILLA....absolute Heaven!
Get some!
Good luck!
We can be vague and abstract together!
I know what you mean, though. I always wonder if I shouldn't start writing on e.g. chapter minus three, so that by the time the story really starts, with chapter one, my writing's at a level for me to be happy with it!
Richard
Good Luck Vanilla. Hope that muse keeps the writing sharp and fantastically super. ;)
Good luck with it. Hope to read an extract soon.
Mmm, sounds like heaven Jan but if it's M&S it will have to wait until my next trip to good ol' Blighty!
Ah yes, Richard, nothing like two vague and abstract writers together, we'll make utterly glorious nonsense between the two of us! ;-) I think I've finally got chapter two going where it wants to go and hopefully the rest will flow from there.
Hmm, well sharpness of writing may well have to come in the edit, V, for now it's a case of getting the story down.
Thanks Marie - let's see where it takes me!
Good luck! I should really follow your example...
Thanks, Rob - but you know what you've got to do - ya just gotta jump right in and immerse yourself ;-)
"I write what I must." - Oh, I love that, Vanilla! We must write.
Godspeed to you ...and your muse!
Thanks, Vesper - a bit of godspeed would be good, at the moment it's all going a bit too slowly for my liking - but then they always start this way...
Gosh already? You just finished the last!
But what a writer you are!
Good luck!
Have a good time getting it all out onto the paper... ;o)
Scarlett & V.
Yep, already, Scarlett & V - though it doesn't feel like "already" - this one's been composting in the old brain for while :-)
Composting. I like that word.
Hmmm, Vanilla, do you and Atyllah anlso share a muse, perhaps. Yours sounds very like hers. I seem to remember seeing a picture once and she looked like Tinkerbell.
Good luck with the new story.
Hmm, yes Steve, now that you mention it, it does seem as the same muse might be offering her services to both Atyllah and me... ;-) Well-spotted.
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