Know yourself

I'm a very descriptive writer, I enjoy using the senses to pull you into my characters mind. Conversation doesn't come so easy for me, as such that is usually the place I have to revisit over and over through the draft process. I think that reflects on my own personality as an Introvert.

I'm not shy, in fact I'm very open with almost everyone, but I only say about an eighth of what I am thinking, and I don't speak rashly, I am very deliberate in what I say. You see, I hate apologizing, and for me its easier to filter with the idea that I need to be sure about my words because I don't want to eat them later. But I know most people aren't like that. Most people aren't on that cusp of being a sociopath, which I readily admit that I am. Most people will let passion take flight and rage in ways that I can't. This need for control can be seen in my writing process. I think its fun to be able to see that much of who and what I am as I explain the way I work to other people.

These deficiencies in my own character are the same hurdles that I face in my writing, and the things I love most when reading the writing of other people. How about you?

Filtering Mental Noise

There are times when I just have a wealth of ideas, so many little bursts of inspiration that it sounds like a cacophony in my head. Its so overwhelming that the idea of putting anything on paper is simply unrealistic. That is what today is, I have spent a week in bed, sick and completely unproductive and today bubbling like the witches cauldron I have this marvelous jumble of images, people, places and ideas in my mind. Its like my brain has become Pinterest (Which is a great place to stow ideas by the way) and the only thing that I really want to do is write about it here on Summoning Genesis and share it with all of you, quiet though you may be, this blog has become part of my writing process.

This Cacophony is another kind of writers block, it takes away all logic and makes documenting the smallest thing feel overwhelming. Its an experience that a lot of college kids are used too. My advise, is that you create a macro, a plan or a template to work from on your own to handle these occasions and run with it.

With all the unrelated images urging me to write, very few of them fit together. So on my computer I have created a folder and labeled it "Tidbits" then I opened OneNote and started a Notebook called Word Vomit. I'm guessing you remember the post I wrote on the free write process, good.

I wrote until my brain switched gears, then I created a new page, and I started over. Trying to work through the noise until I had a singular voice isolated in the chorus.

A snippet for you:

So warm, so comfortable, soft... the sounds of elsewhere in the house echoed the morning routines, activity on the stairs, someone lost a ribbon. The smell tantalized her with a savory breakfast seduction making her stomach cramp and reality started clearing away the fog of warmth. Opening her eyes the twilight gloom from her window did little for the buttery yellow of the bedroom, the lace bed hangings like the cobwebs on her mind, parted as she sat up, swinging her legs over the edge of the bed.