Writing has become a journey of reading signs, marking trails, looking far behind to see where I have been to discover what may be ahead before it happens
Stories can write themselves, but only with skill and experience will they take the best path through the maze the first time. I’m finding that once the story is down, there’s a secondary passion to refine it. I’ll read the entire story through many, many times; often changing just a few words. The pace slows to reading portions at a time, but always starting at the beginning or later in the process, from a point that’s been gone through till it doesn’t men anything but words–that I’ll get back to after a day or two when I’ve forgotten it and it will regain a freshness.
Sometimes just a word. A few hours later, another.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
It’s that second passion that I have trouble with. No one should have 4 novels going at once and have the nerve to start a 5th. ADD? Definitely, but something more. If I could crack it, I’d be a millionaire teaching motivational courses.
Loretta, you need to focus on one at a time, live with it and within it, think it, be it, finish it and move on to the next.
Your writing is exquisite and likely you don’t need a lot of editing, but you need to put your soul into it and emerge a spirit ready to reincarnate in another story.
Or, maybe not…