Sunday, October 4, 2009

Writing rightly, part two. . .

I have just completed the first draft of book two of the Writing Project and then decided that, since it is a four-book project, I will be working on all books at once. I came to this decision because I recently found that writing, for me, is very much like working on a visual piece where all parts are worked on simultaniously. Some writers can do a series in succession and it works. Not me. The story that I'm relating is very much like the ghost in the above image. It cannot be picked apart bit by bit nor written like a school paper because the story is an entire entity. It comes to me in flashes, vague or solid, and then begins to fit itself together as other aspects are glimpsed over time. This adds time to the Project, but I also have come to accept that, because Time itself is relative and cannot be hurried.