July 12, 2009

  • Who'da thunk it?

    A little while ago, I was working on my next beadweaving project (no surprise lately), when I think my muse decided to check in with a swift kick (a rather large surprise).

    Now, I haven't written anything that's not work-related in ages – well, aside from the occasional Xanga post. I've only given a passing thought to writing a fiction piece in the last several years. (Though I do think I have a trashy romance plot starting to percolate on the back burner, but we'll see if anything comes of it.)

    So I'm sitting there, sewing little tiny beads together, when this germ of a story idea I had years back (as in, during my college days) comes to mind for some odd reason. I've always like this little seed, but I couldn't ever really get it to work. I had snippets, but no cohesive plot line. I could actually "see" my setting – a rarity for me – and I knew what my main character's issue was. I even knew, sort of, what I wanted to happen for the climax of the story arc. I just couldn't figure out how to get there, and said climax wasn't quite right.

    Even more oddly, the story starts to flesh out in my mind. And I think it works. The plot line starts to fill out and flow in a way that makes sense to me. I even add a character who helps things move along nicely and takes care of a couple of my issues with the climax and resolution.

    For once, I did something somewhat smart. I grabbed the notepad that I've been sketching my jewelry ideas on and started writing notes. I now have a quick and dirty outline for the story. I don't have character names yet, but I do have a potential title, which is always one of my stumbling blocks. I'll still have to get past the trauma of the blank screen when I go to start actually writing the story, but who knows, I may actually have something different to work on with all this free time I have lately. And that's kinda cool.

    Have a great week, folks!