Can’t tell you how much better I feel having started writing today. I had morning tea with Marion, one of my best writing buddies, first and she gave me some good background info on my main character’s studies (Christina Rossetti thesis) and some good quotes from Rosetti’s poem “Goblin Market” – pretty sexy stuff. So enjoyed writing. The first page was the hardest, fear and loathing rising up in my gullet, but once I just let go and let the world unfold, let the characters speak for themselves, I reached that point where it was just flying by itself and I was being carried along with it, watching it unfold.
Mick, the Maltese guy is gorgeous and sexy as hell and they’re on!
No actual sex scene as yet. Tomorrow!
Yep folks, writing is fun.
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INTO THE DEEP END
About to start in on the new novel. Feels a bit like standing on top of a cliff trying to gather courage to leap into the roaring sea below, staring at the waves crashing, trying to familiarise myself with them, reminding myself how to swim. But there’s only one thing to do. JUMP!
Michael Cunningham (author of The Hours) says,
“A writer should always feel like he’s in over his head. That’s part of what makes good writing compelling – the sense that as readers we’re in the company of a writer of vast ambitions, who is always trying to do more than he or she is technically capable of.”
Well, that’s me, vast ambitions and in WAY over my head.
Aiming for a thousand words a day and a full draft done by the end of June. Who’s with me?
Love to all,
Edwina
Edwina Shaw 