Sometimes I hear them at night, as they softly fog around, and float over me.
They, the early lines that came in the dark. Back in the Ulysses era of my writing
life, they skirted around like a siren, called me from my stove, then.
Does this happen to you? Getting ready to write is a lengthy process in and of itself. I approach the time with both joy and trepidation. Almost as if Richard Parker one of the stars of Life of Pi, in case you didn't see the film, is in my boat. Within a minute of opening up the document of my NIP (novel in progress) I switch over to Blogger to write a post about this curiosity of "getting ready to write not writing." Here are a few ways and whys of writing today.
(Go Here for Part One)
I met Urve Tamberg at the StoryMaster's Workshop in Seattle. When she told me her novel took place in Estonia and was called "The Darkest Corner of the World", I think I said something brilliant like, oh, I know Estonia. In "Encino Man" that's where the unearthed caveman got his nickname "Stony."