Writing and Reading

It’s been a long while for me since I wrote another entry on here. Work. Also I was helping two ladies move some rather large and hefty appliances into their apartment. I’m just that nice…. *sighs*. I know. That’s me.

But I’m back, kiddies, with another post. And it came to me after a brainstorming session on my new project, VERMILION EYE. You other writers out there might understand what I’m going to say here….

It’s called clarity….

Let me draw a sketch for you. Sort of illustrate. We all have our continuing projects, don’t we? We’re always writing, always thinking, dreaming. New characters are born inside our minds. They grow up in our thoughts. Their lives culminate into one defining moment that becomes the all-encompassing ‘novel’ that ultimately defines them. And then we, as writers, go, “huh…. Wow, that’s an idea,” and then we toil and toil about how we can flesh it out, we brainstorm, we rack it around in our heads like the balls of a pinball machine, we keep flipping in more coins, more coins, bouncing around ideas, hitting ramps, the cones–

MULTIBAAAAAAAAAAAAALL!!!!

Suddenly, we’re shooting up ramps like crackheads shoot up cocaine. We’re gettin’ fired up, we’re rockin’, the point total just keeps goin’ up and up and up. The characters in our head start developing more and more and more.

And then it comes…. That clarity.

Like going to the eye doctor. You put your eyes into the lens and read the letters. They’re all blurry. But you can see them. You want so badly to read them. And the doctor flips in some newer lens, testing out your prescription. You can see the lens sort of slide slowly in front of your eyes, and you can see those letters suddenly become….

CLEARER.

And you feel a jolt of joy when it becomes clear. And the doctor says, ‘better?’ or ‘the same?’. And you say ‘better’. And you’ve never felt more glee other than Christmas Day.

Clarity.

Somehow the story in your head, that new project, that new adventure just waiting to come out, fully incubated, ready to explode, ready to venture out into the world–

You’re ready. You’re ready to fire away at the keyboard. You’re ready to let the plot pull out, guns blazin’. And when you’re done with the plot, you ache to actually start writing the novel. You’re set. You’re fired up. You’re ready. You have clarity.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how I now feel for my new project. Meet the newest novel I’ll be working on: VERMILION EYE. It is now no longer an idea. It is now a goal. The characters are pretty real to me. The story lives. Watch out, literary agents. I’m comin’ for you.

I’m back on the writing saddle and I’m yellin’ at Tonto to ride with me with guns blazin’.

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