ROW80: I Am In Love Once More
Writing a novel is personal, it is authors removing a part of who they are and immortalizing it in print for the whole world to see. The ultimate level of vulnerability. Yet we do it because we love it.
After many months of editing, re-writing certain scenes and *gulps* deleting words, I have finally begun work on Book 2 of my trilogy. A novel provisionally titled Trials and Tribulations. It feels wonderful.
That feeling of nervousness before every word, fingertips caressing the keys; fluid and gentle. The unknown unfolding before your eyes, characters growing and changing seemingly of their own accord. The unexpected lies ahead even for the most structured of plotters. It is frightening and exhilarating, it is for want of a more apt description…. LOVE.
You can always tell someone in love because of their face. They smile, it cannot be helped, and I will never blame them for doing so. For writers I am sure it is the same. When we are working on a new project, we smile. The plot, the characters are in our minds and in our hearts. We feel them calling to us and cannot wait to get just a few more moments in their company, because we know that when it happens, everything will be fine.
As I am sure you can guess, I have started my new novel and currently – thanks to being able to salvage a lot of the opening scene for Richard from back when I had planned on making it one long novel rather than a trilogy – have circa 12,000 words already written. The opening desert scene has been completed and I am now reviving my second group and setting their tale in motion. In a way I feel sad that they will not all meet until the end of this installment, but sadly such expectation needs to be built. The only question I am asking myself is are they all going to be alive when they get there. (Okay, technically they are all already dead but you know what I mean)
Highway to Hell is still with the editors, and I hope to have heard something about it by this time next week, which will still put me on course to have everything tied up by the end of August.
Well thank you all for reading, and before I go, I would like to share a link with you. It is to an amazing short story written and edited in under 90 minutes (well if you read the article that accompanies the tale I guess it was 91 minutes) by my friend Dmytry Karpov
