Brainstorming

Today I have plans to sit and brainstorm, every once in awhile I have to do this so that it freshens my ideas. I toss some of these ideas around with a very dear friend of mine. When the other end of the phone gets quiet and there are no questions being asked, I know these are the ideas that have gone over the line.

It is these ideas that I very often expand on. If they can make my friend question my sanity, then this is what I want. Unfortunately I feel somewhat guilty about scaring the daylights out of my friend, but if it scared her it would scare others. (I just hope the men in white aren’t called in.) I try to stretch the imagination to its limits, still trying to have some form of reality in it. (Even if it is very little)

I need to go over what I already have written, and try to freshen it up so that it can go on. Once the monsters are out of the closet you still have to keep you reader’s attention.

There is a new website that has been set up by a couple of young guys, I love checking it out and watching it grow. I really enjoy reading their blog. I will leave you a link check out the site, and then go down at the bottom and click on the blog and get a good chuckle.

http://www.bizzflip.com/ Have fun:)

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In The Mood

To get your mind set regarding emotions when writing, if it calls for writing about something happy, I find going to a time in my life when I experienced something that made me happy. I reminisce with hopes that the emotions comes through my writing.

Of course we have all had our share of sadness’; I find it easier to express that. Not only for the times that my life has experienced such emotions, but sadness is an emotion that you reach out to others with, and they to you.

The hardest thing to do isn’t how the emotions should feel, but to put it in words to get it across. Not so easy! To use the right words just the right way to make the reader feel what I am trying to create, enough to pull them more into the story. To make them sense the emotion so strong that it becomes theirs.

I know when I am enjoying a story it is when I make some of the characters my friends and can’t wait to get back to visit them. For that matter even the characters I don’t like I have to get back and see what they are up to, and that they get their just due.

When I pick up that book, I want to leave where I am and travel in the story with the world the writer created. It doesn’t matter if it’s a wonderful place or a dark place, like you would find in the scarier stories. It is still an escape. And I am always ready to take a trip.

Discipline Needed

I either have writers block or I am overflowing with ideas. I seem to be better doing short stories, I guess because I can get it all out and then go back to whatever I was doing. Instant gratification! Sometimes the ideas come at the worst times and if I don’t get it on paper they don’t come back! Hate that!

I have started two different books which I have not worked on in some time. Takes more planning of my time and perhaps I am just not disciplined enough to do that. I some how have to plan the week out better to fit writing time in. I feel like I won't be ready mentally to just start writing I have always written on the fly. I do miss my stories I get attached to the characters I do like getting lost in the story. Reality seems hard sometimes.

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(Please excuse the way this post looks, it is under construction.)

A small sample of one of the writings:


The alarm clock rang at 6:30 AM, I reached to turn it off, and through the threads of dim light that filtered through the curtains I saw the sticky reddish brown blood on my arm. I looked over the arm and didn’t see a cut. I turned to see if Mark had a nose bleed during the night, and I saw more blood on the bed, more then from just a nose bleed, but no Mark!



If you always wanted to write, do it! We put to many things off, before you know it time has passed us by. And we find that we have less time then we did before, or our mind dries up. Everyone of us has a story in us, and there is always some one out there that wants to hear it. (Like me, I will always listen)



I have a friend who is one of the best writers I know. I pray I live to hear the end of her story, it is really good and I've been in suspense for over a year. I know in my heart that she will finish, it would kill me if she doesn't
because I started to feel like the characters in her book are old friends. I keep waiting to see them.




Books are like old friends, they make for great company.