I'm
just beginning to plot a new novel. It's interesting to watch the process I go
through. I start with an idea, but I don't really know where it's going yet.
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(I
have to stop to clean the yard for a garden party. Gave the backyard pines a great haircut!)
I'm fleshing out the
characters. What are their strengths? Their weaknesses? They will create a lot
of the twists and turns of the story by their actions. Does each character have
their own story? How does each of them push the story forward?
(Today is our day to work in the temple. Always love this day! I
will write some more tomorrow.)
Ideas come to me
about the protagonists issues, antagonist issues.
(Took the grandkids to visit an older lady in the ward who had been sick.)
The story only
unfolds as I sit down to write. I can't plot in my head and then sit down to
write. I have to sit down to write and then ideas come to me.
(Book signing
tonight.)
Are my ideas
realistic? Do they make sense? Only my critique group will tell me the answers
to these questions. I do depend on them. As we talk as a group each week, there
are times when ideas are generated by the group that are better than I could
come up with by myself.
(Getting ready for
LDS Storymakers. Excited!)
What is your process
like? Step outside yourself watch how this happens for you.
Do you ever feel
disjointed? That's what my life feels like sometimes. Well, not sometimes. All
the time. I still relish the time I take to write in my busy life. It keeps the
blood flowing through my veins.
How about you?
Sounds like me. I have probably literally thousands of little notes about a scene, an idea, a conversation in my writing stack that keeps getting pushed aside for RL.
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