Gotta love that movie, Meet the Robinsons! It has given me the inspirational quote I need for the day.
My writing has not gone well, as of late. I was distracted by the kitchen painting project. Then, during Thanksgiving weekend, I woke with a horrible pain in my shoulder- which then moved to my arm and settled in my joints. Katie- my favorite, if infrequent massage therapist, started asking me questions over the phone (she's 500 miles away, so this is the best we could do) and doing a bit of research. She came to the conclusion that the problem was my rhomboid.
And she was right. It is royally messed up. I've been working on getting it "fixed", but in the meantime, typing for any length of time can get pretty painful. As a result, I've not done a lot of writing in the past two months. I've fit in a little here and there... and on my birthday (of all days) I awoke with a totally unrelated and new idea and spent three hours with a notebook and a pen just writing it all out! (yeah, my rhomboid was totally screaming at me for that!)
But the point is, I did it! I kept moving forward. And I've been giving a lot of thought to the different story ideas floating around in my brain- and reading a lot, too. So today I got back to writing in earnest. I spent awhile typing in some new ideas.... and I think I have a title for the work I started last fall.
Meanwhile, still doing a lot of reading- though I wonder if reading books that come in a series is a bit of a disservice. After all, one cannot count on the success of one manuscript, let alone an entire series! Yet it seems that is what I read the most- and thus would influence my writing most.
The current work is pretty much a stand alone piece. That is to say, I don't have any ideas beyond the initial storyline (in spite of my reading preferences). So maybe I'll just get along fine anyway.
Lately in my reading I've been looking a lot at point of view, and how other authors use this. I've also noticed that a lot of authors begin with some kind of prologue- a way to introduce some facts to give background to the story. In his book on writing fantasy and science fiction, Orson Card advised against this, but I've seen some very skilled, and successful writers do just that. So I'm a bit torn on that. But I guess what it comes down to is this: If it serves the story well, then use it.
Hopefully my efforts this week to get back to writing will get me back into the swing of things. And hopefully my stupid rhomboid will cooperate.
