Beatrice Colin's Blog - Posts Tagged "prairie"
American Trip
In the name of research I'm planning a trip to the American heartland - to Chicago, then Kansas and Oklahoma to see some original prairies and then to Santa Fe and New Mexico.
In the book I've just started I'm trying to write about a place I've never been and find it almost impossible to get past the cliches. With a place, I feel that to have the confidence to write about it, I have to experience my own visceral response to it.
I've just written a scene about jumping a freight train, however, and although I've never done it, I've read and listened to enough accounts to be able to imagine it - very dangerous, if you fall, fall away from the wheels. . .
Starting a new book, once you get past the barrier of actually typing anything, is exhilarating - so many new characters, places, relationships to explore. It's all pure potential but then it gets harder and harder, and the deadline gets shorter and shorter and all of a sudden you find you have run out of time. But that's a good many months away - all I can think about are huge skies and the open road. . .
In the book I've just started I'm trying to write about a place I've never been and find it almost impossible to get past the cliches. With a place, I feel that to have the confidence to write about it, I have to experience my own visceral response to it.
I've just written a scene about jumping a freight train, however, and although I've never done it, I've read and listened to enough accounts to be able to imagine it - very dangerous, if you fall, fall away from the wheels. . .
Starting a new book, once you get past the barrier of actually typing anything, is exhilarating - so many new characters, places, relationships to explore. It's all pure potential but then it gets harder and harder, and the deadline gets shorter and shorter and all of a sudden you find you have run out of time. But that's a good many months away - all I can think about are huge skies and the open road. . .
