Old Friend, New Journey

I'm really starting to feel it, that bubbling geyser of excitement just begging to be let loose. In the meantime, I'm giving it a little pre-NaNo workout. Working on a poem at the moment. One I've been meaning to write for a long time and just now do I feel ready to write it. So much is happening "just now". Maybe I was supposed to wait for this all along? I wish I could harness this energy the way Captain Shakespeare harnesses lightning. If I figure out how, I'll let all of you know.

But even better, I've been talking more with an old friend lately. We used to bounce story ideas off each other and trade bits of writing all the way back in middle school. Times changed and we changed and we each took off in our own direction, but over the past couple of months we've been talking a bit more here and a bit more there. Skip to yesterday when I emailed her with a request. She's a graphic artist and I asked if she'd work on some sketches of characters in her spare time and she jumped on the idea. But what I think is even better than the artistic help she's providing, is the developmental help. Some things to me are as clear as if they were real and I was there. Some things I just never think about and I need to learn to think about if I'm going to write them. So I sent her two brief character synopses yesterday and she wrote back a few hours later with loads of questions. So many of them I'd never thought of! But now that they're out there, I'm forced to think about them. (This is a very very good thing.)

At last, everything seems to be coming together.

24 days and counting...

Yours Truly,
Mrs. C