The Novel You Write When You Aren’t Writing A Novel
Writing a novel is a huge undertaking and tends to take over your life. The process can have you awake and writing at 3 am, neglecting things like food and housework, and in a state of angst as you struggle with difficult scenes or the things that just aren’t falling into place. Once finished, people tell you what they think of it in a public forum, sometimes with brutal honesty, and for most authors, it provides little financial return for the time it takes to write it. You may wonder why anyone bothers. Inspiration is the culprit. It drives artists, even without their invitation. After completing my Diamond Peak Series, I could have written more books. I had ideas that would have made quite decent novels, but after six years of full time studying and practicing writing, I needed more balance in my life. I didn’t, and still don’t,…
My Christmas gift to you: one of the most beautiful Christmas songs ever.
This has got to be one of the most beautiful Christmas songs I have ever heard. Happy Christmas everyone. May there be peace on earth and goodwill everywhere.
Forbidden Warrior Lore: Worlds Within Worlds #5
Worlds Within Worlds is the working title of a series of metaphysically inclined writings that are shaping themselves into a story without my conscious direction. These are essentially unedited first drafts that I have made no attempt to shape. The idea is to let creativity flow as it wishes. Please comment on whatever aspect you would like. An introduction to the series and a list of the posts in order (should you wish to begin at the beginning) is on the Writer’s World page. Click here for the previous offerings in reverse order. Today we go back to the novel Prunella is editing: Kelee’s world in the Magan Village. Forbidden Warrior Lore: Worlds Within Worlds #5 Voices. Slade’s mellow tones and the thin, wobbly voice of the stable master drifted across the courtyard. Kelee looked up from her reading and smiled. The grooms had arrived for work. She found herself at the window again without conscious…
Kelee’s world: Worlds Within Worlds #3
Worlds Within Worlds is the working title of a series of loosely connected writings that are shaping themselves into a story without my conscious direction. These are essentially unedited first drafts that I have made no attempt to shape with my conscious mind. An introduction to the series and a list of the posts in order (should you want to begin at the beginning) is on the Writer’s World page. This follows on from Worlds Within Worlds #2 www.informationliberation.com. New World Disorder: Patterns Of Psychopathy And Other Fractal Anomalies Kelee’s World: Worlds Within Worlds #3 Kelee slammed the dusty tome on the table and froze. The thump had sounded far too loud in the silent household. But no querying mother’s voice rang along the corridors, and Kelee reminded herself that the walls were thick stone. She breathed again. Dust motes danced in the sliver of rising sun that pierced the library’s gloom. She shouldn’t have…
I am not real: Worlds Within Worlds #2
Worlds Within Worlds is the working title of a series of metaphysically inclined writings that are shaping themselves into a story without my conscious direction. These are essentially unedited first drafts that I have made no attempt to shape. The idea is to let creativity flow as it wishes. Please comment on whatever aspect you would like. An introduction to the series and a list of the posts in order (should you wish to begin at the beginning) is on the Writer’s World page. Meet my alter-ego. I am not real: Worlds Within Worlds #2 I am not real, and yet I am. I sit, all flesh and blood, at my computer desk, staring at the screen that is my business world. My clients and colleagues are merely a photo and words on a screen, as I am to them. Prunella Smith; they read it alongside the photo of the thirty something…
A Glimpse Beneath the Veil: Worlds Within Worlds #1
Worlds Within Worlds is the working title of a series of writings that are shaping themselves into a story without my conscious direction. These are essentially unedited first drafts that I have made no attempt to shape with my conscious mind. Please comment on whatever aspect you would like. An introduction to the series and a list of the posts in order (should you want to begin at the beginning) is on the Writer’s World page. virtual-suiseki-museum.org. A Glimpse Beneath the Veil: Worlds Within Worlds #1 Ordinary reality peels away, as if some cosmic hand wipes a film from my eyes. The sounds of cicadas, frogs, crickets and trickling water take on a vibrancy that thrums through my being like a mantra. Ripples from the gentle waterfall spread across the pond like the vibrations of my mind spreading to all humanity and beyond. Never have I seen grass so green, or such a…
Prunella Smith & an introduction to ‘Worlds Within Worlds’
I wasn’t going to write any more novels. I planned to help others write theirs instead, (and I still will) but the nature of true creativity is that it can neither be forced or neutered, and it flows best from a relaxed mind without an agenda. I’ve been meditating a lot lately, so it’s not surprising that something should pop up. Though it may turn into one, I’m not thinking of it as a novel, because I do not want to limit what comes by squeezing it into any preconceived form. Though what I have written already hints at an overall story, the writings will remain without an agenda. Remember Prunella Smith? I mentioned her as an after thought when I told you I wasn’t going to write another novel. She’s grown up since I first met her and instead of the half baked story I’d formed with my conscious…