What say ye, cap’ain? | Impromptu Promptlings.
This is a friend of mine though we have never met in the flesh. She is wise and sensitive and and is a worker of miracles though she may not acknowledge them. Read this beginning of her story and encourage her to finish it. It is a thing that if she does not do will never be done.
I include this song cause I thought of it when I read her work and because it reminded me of the skating rink a long time ago and how even then my little heart was a romantic one.
Hm… Some good questions to think about. It must be your training that enables you to think through these things, eh? I’ll copy your comment up there into my Scrivener program where my manuscript is so I’ll have it to refer to.
I posted just the first little bit of Glencara’s Bane on here for a blog hop thingy months ago. I’ve edited the first three chapters since then. I’ll see about posting some bits and pieces now and again. Maybe it will get my mind jump started. Who knows.
You know, you could start a new business. You’d make a great writing coach. Honestly!
Good morning, friend… Hope you slept well. Getting ready to throw some breakfast on the table and usher his lordship out the door to work. But just wanted to say you haven’t overstepped your bounds. I really do appreciate the gauntlet you’re throwing down for me. And I do promise to work on some kind of plot. Sometimes I wonder if I get too emotionally involved in any fantasy story to be able to see clearly.
I had a thought in the night about that writing/favorite books thing. I started wondering what would happen if I perused all the female characters I’d ever written the way it said to examine those books. I think that may become a project for me. If I could figure Claire Kendricks out in Glencara’s Bane, I could finish editing that sucker. Everyone is pushing me to self-publish it on Amazon. But it’s just not ready for that yet. You have been a wonderful sounding board. Maybe something is shaking loose in me. We’ll see.
That being said, you spent so much time trying to urge ME on yesterday that I don’t think you wrote much for you. Reading your stuff is also helpful for me. Please, please write a LOT more!
Whether i am conversing with you or scribbling something its all writing to me and fun. I think the plot is already written in your soul. What if you thought about your resistance reluctance to proceed as the exact same emotional issues your heroine is dealing with. And what if that same longing you have to finish the story was used to describe her motivation. You would know exactly what to write because it would be true. No real differece than having a conversation with a friend. All those characters are already in you and a part of you. Where is the story you are editing? I would like to read it. My guess is that as you resolve this issue in your heart you will resolve whatever the issue is in the story. You said you don’t like her. What’s that about? Why don’t you like her? What does she need? You may find that yall need similar things. Happy day to you!
Cause you like druids and stephen lawhead it is all there. Cause you are deep and sensitive and cause im a little crazy. There was probably something emotionally in your visits today that could guide you in your quest for Him in your story. His heart needed help. He needed what? Let me know if I overstep. You know all of this already. It motivated you today to care. It is your nature. The story would have you caring about the caracters like you have others for so long.
How the hell do you do that??? Where do you get all these ideas from? I swear, I feel as if my writing well (as Julia Cameron calls it) is completely dry. UNLESS it’s something like the story about Paul and his brother. How do you call up all those scenarios?
I’m going to do that exercise tomorrow. Been out visiting my three shut-ins from church today, one of whom just had a double bypass and a heart valve replaced. I think I’m ’bout done in for the day. But I’d sure like to hear what you come up with, too.
Have a great tomorrow, dude! And thanks for being such an encouragement.
I think you are trying to write it all at once. It happens one word at a time. Get yourself into places and figure out how to get out. Thats how I do it anyway. You seem alot smarter than me. You can do it.
Just ran across this article from The Write Practice and loved it. Thought you might find it interesting, too.
http://thewritepractice.com/favorite-books/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheWritePractice+%28The+Write+Practice%29
I think when you do the exercise you will discover that you need to finsih the story and he will be trapped by dark druids and you have to befriend those of the light to rescue the guy and in the effort you will be rescued too. At the risk of you being ill with me I think you have read quite enough about how to write. I have read your words they are alive. If I overstep please tell me. The pirate thing was really cool. Really. Maybe its time to accept the miracle for yourself and go girl! Its just one word at a time. If it takes a year or seven who cares. In the end it will be a story about you anyway.
Oh my! It really DOES work when you past a url in the comment box! Hot damn!
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Here you go. http://christinaochs.com/
Her hubby is a long haul trucker and she rides with him. About four or five weeks after I met her online and we’d been talking about writing like crazy, they came through here with a load. I met her for brunch and we talked for over three hours. She’s a sweetheart. And this book she’s working on has blown me away. It’s a fantasy take on the 30 Years War in Europe.
I followed her
How would I find the rolling writer? I looked on your sight. Can you remember where she commented? I could find it that way
A hobby? Damn. Well they may never understand. Its better than finding a new lover, at least in its consequence, and it can be just a passionate. Sometimes I think we have to tell our family to kiss our ass, in Christian love of course. Be Groovy!
Its really good. I am not being kind. Finish it woman.
You got it! Thanks for the reblog. It doesn’t come out exactly the same as it would on the plain WordPress site, but the link works just as well. My friend Christina (The Rolling Writer) just switched her site over to something like yours. She said she was having major headaches with it. So good job figuring that out! And thanks for the pep talk. You’re a peach.
I will go find her her and follow. I really wanted to read the rest of the story. I wound not say that unless it was true. I would consider flattery and insult. I liked it.
I believe you. It’s actually just fun to have someone read this drivel I write. It’s a hard place to be in when your family doesn’t take it seriously, just thinks it’s a hobby. Never have had the privilege of being in a true writing environment except for one night class at the university.