The Recital First Draft Cometh – Writing Can Finally Commence

Recital. So, I’ve researched. I’ve sketched. I’ve blocked. I know who is who, what is what, and I’ve got a fair understanding of most of the why and I have a spreadsheet the size of Manhattan showing about 80% of the when. Which means, after two false starts and a lot of other stuff in between, finally I feel that I can sit down and write my ‘real’ first draft.

This isn’t how it all started. It started when I sat down to write Recital and got to about ten thousand words before I realised ther...