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Moments LIke These Keep Me Writing!
When I write, I never know where the story is going because I can’t see the plot clearly. I describe the process like putting a puzzle together with no sense of what the final picture will look like. Only when pieces snap into place do I get a sense of one aspect of the story and over time, those aspects begin to fit together.
This means that while I’m writing, I’m a mess with all of these story pieces lying around in a disconnected plot that is literally putting itself together.
This is the way I’ve always written. During the process of a new story, I sometimes feel like a crazy woman with characters, conversations, settings and events stacked here and there. It’s an intuitive process. At times, a piece will snap into place, much like the magic of picking up a puzzle piece and having it out of pure luck.
I have been working on another fiction piece titled ‘Death by Violets’. It has a character named Harvey Lane Murphy , the father of Violet Lynn Murphy, who, as you might guess, is the ‘Violet’ in ‘Death by Violets’. Harvey is a linguist and loves ‘word spins’ -- rearranging letters of a word into as many other words as he can. In the story, his name can be rearranged into ‘Very ha’, which is a term of endearment his wife uses for him. (Don’t ask because I don’t know where that piece fits in just yet). But…
Yesterday my husband and I were driving home from up north. At one juncture, I looked up from what I was doing (working on slides for an upcoming presentation) and saw a yellow transport truck cab. The name of the truck line was ‘Veriha’. I could hardly believe this—what are the chances of meeting up with a truck line by that name? Was I dreaming? Or having another one of those incredible psychic events that tell me I’m on the right track and to keep on ‘truckin’ with ‘Death by Violets’?
What do you think? Contact me at Vivian@probstprose.com and let me know.
Vivian Probst
Other stories waiting to be published: ‘Little Black Book for BLUE People; ‘The TimeMaker’s Shop’; ‘The Woman Who Forgot Who She Was’ (5-volume series); ‘The Man Who Remembered’ (5-volume series)
Join my mailing list today at deathbyroses.com and be among the first to know when these stories come out!
This means that while I’m writing, I’m a mess with all of these story pieces lying around in a disconnected plot that is literally putting itself together.
This is the way I’ve always written. During the process of a new story, I sometimes feel like a crazy woman with characters, conversations, settings and events stacked here and there. It’s an intuitive process. At times, a piece will snap into place, much like the magic of picking up a puzzle piece and having it out of pure luck.
I have been working on another fiction piece titled ‘Death by Violets’. It has a character named Harvey Lane Murphy , the father of Violet Lynn Murphy, who, as you might guess, is the ‘Violet’ in ‘Death by Violets’. Harvey is a linguist and loves ‘word spins’ -- rearranging letters of a word into as many other words as he can. In the story, his name can be rearranged into ‘Very ha’, which is a term of endearment his wife uses for him. (Don’t ask because I don’t know where that piece fits in just yet). But…
Yesterday my husband and I were driving home from up north. At one juncture, I looked up from what I was doing (working on slides for an upcoming presentation) and saw a yellow transport truck cab. The name of the truck line was ‘Veriha’. I could hardly believe this—what are the chances of meeting up with a truck line by that name? Was I dreaming? Or having another one of those incredible psychic events that tell me I’m on the right track and to keep on ‘truckin’ with ‘Death by Violets’?
What do you think? Contact me at Vivian@probstprose.com and let me know.
Vivian Probst
Other stories waiting to be published: ‘Little Black Book for BLUE People; ‘The TimeMaker’s Shop’; ‘The Woman Who Forgot Who She Was’ (5-volume series); ‘The Man Who Remembered’ (5-volume series)
Join my mailing list today at deathbyroses.com and be among the first to know when these stories come out!
