Proverbs

“The person who brings a story to you will take away two from you.” – Irish Proverb
Happy St. Patrick’s Day

I have been haunted this week by a story. It started as a very simple thought, “I need to write a fantasy piece for that literary journal I talked to at DragonCon last year.” And with that, I let the marble loose. It bounced around for a few minutes, I don’t remember any other ideas that it brought up or stuck to, to be honest I don’t know that there was another idea, but it started. It formed around creatures, something I’ve never written about. It moved towards changing pre-existing ideas of readers, how to recreate a creature that’s already in someones mind. And on it rolled. I am also breaking another one of my standard writing styles and I’m writing in first person.

*A note about writing in first person. In my opinion this should be done nearly never. It is rarely done well but if done well can be very impacting. My suggestion to new writers is to stay as far away from it as humanly possible, this also usually my suggestion to myself, but there is something in this character that merits her voice. *

I am very excited to see what is to come of this piece. I won’t worry with word count or editing down, I will simply tell the story until the story is done. I owe it to this character, to Raelia, to not leave the whole of the story untold. I suppose there will be many nights to follow where I lie awake in my bed writing on the dark pages of sleeplessness that hang over me. Though I wake tired the next morning there is something in me that is at peace knowing there’s still more to put on paper.

 

 

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~ by cbriggswrites on March 17, 2011.