Beyond the everyday, behind the scenes!
Well yet again work, family and gym have torn me away from blogging and much in the way of progress for the stories, however, I have managed to go around collating some ideas throughout my time this week.
I have had a full on week with work with two days for requalification and training flanked either side by normal shifts, the last two being night shifts. Last night as I was driving around I caught sight of an illuminated church in the middle of the night. The spotlights cast some very eerie shadows across one face of the spire and whilst it was a relatively modern church structure (more angular and boxy than your tradition English church with spiked spires and such) it still caught my attention.
Obviously sat staring for a second my mind played out some scene of The Magdon perched atop the roof staring down from the dark shadows, shimmering green eyes glaring down as if hunting, waiting to strike.
Yes! That is exactly what happens in my head. I can be just going about my normal day-to-day stuff and something pops into my head. As I have said before I am a very “visual” creator so for me if I can make my ideas into a watchable scene in my mind then I know I can build it into something real for the page. If I struggle to create the image then I know they idea is either ill-formed or simply not going to work.
I think that is why I enjoy writing.
For me, as my parents, family and (limited) friends will tell you I am a fan of films. I have always enjoyed watching them, playing them as a child, and re-watching them over again. When I write it always feels like I am making my own film and I really do sit there staring off into the abyss sometimes simply because I am playing out some scene or interaction for a story in my mind.
I suppose it is a form of creative escapism so really what happens to make it to the page really represents probably a third of what I actually saw in my head.
Whilst I haven’t had time to write down anything for Origins Of The Magdon or The Magdon: Generations I have managed to structure an interview to be kindly featured on Merryn Books at the end of January.
It was interesting answering the questions as I feared my life isn’t that interesting. I think deep down that is the defence mechanism of self-doubt. If I play down the face behind the stories then I have to defend less and lose less face if I fail in this world I suppose. I was quite surprised when my interviewer said I wasn’s as boring as I feared! Hopefully, the interview will give a little more fo a structured insight than my random rantings on my blog posts!
[image error]The view at the end of my requalification day at work – who can fail to see inspiration in that view!?!
I will, of course, share the link to my interview when it goes live and until then I am continuing to build my presence a little on Social Media. I have mixed my fitness and author lives and am slowly but surely building my exposure.
At the moment I am relying on word of mouth and faith. I have this hope, however, silly it is, that someday someone with the right connections will happen across my stories and say “you know what there’s something in this” and the world will open up from there.
That isn’t to say I am not trying everything I can myself but I have, as you can tell, always been a bit of a dreamer. Other people come across this thing called a “lucky break” and you never know it could happen to me……one day………hopefully!
