This afternoon I'm having tea with a writer friend who is one of my biggest cheerleaders in this life. Yesterday as we were talking about the novel and I was telling her how I could just delete sections that were crap, she told me that nothing of it was wasted, that I had put in the time and discipline and that the characters, all of them who showed up, were a gift. So last night when the story took yet another detour I simply kept typing and waited to see what would happen next. Whenever I discuss the plot line and all the possible 'what ifs' with Youngest Son he tells me that I am a mean person.....mean to my characters and a little deranged to boot. Which just makes me smile. But then, you all knew I was a little deranged already didn't you?
3 comments:
woo hoo! you can do it!
deranged & mean! :D only our children can speak those kind of words to us, eh?
Yippie!
Good evening, Character, please, sit down on the bed of nails. Some wine? Oh dear, I'll have to {pant pant}Crush some grapes first! Oh my, now who planted that anvil above your chair? Awfully sorry about that. Ah, the clock is striking midnight--how time flies! Yes, my fingernails are growing rather long and pointy, aren't they? This hair? Runs {pant pant} in the pack--I mean family. What's your hurry? There's a beautiful {pant pant} full moooooooooooooooooon!
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