to test or not to test?

[excommunimoi]

An LJ for my '08 Nano, Mercy Street. The mood theme is thanks to the lovely folks over at frostianmoods, and the template itself may or may not be temporary. I rather like the idea of woodcuts for a novel drenched in Catholicism - brings to mind the good ol' days before Gutenberg. But it's hard to get use to anything other than The Chair: because it's the

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[the_reader42]

As said before I look forward to having something to read!

You need to move past The Chair - and find that you can write more than one thing. Novels are like people, er, well, a person can write many of them because there are many pieces to us, as people. You have all the stories inside you, equally. Let them come out! I like the wood cuts though I don't know the meaning of them. :) You need to divulge more.

I think researching/planning in a short time sounds nice. I couldn't do it - I would die - but I think it is a great crash way of getting back into the Awesome. As it is. ^^

[excommunimoi]

Frankly, I'd rather not move past the Chair. Despite the recent drought, I have been at writing for a long time - it was my all-consuming raison d'etre from the age of four up until a few years ago - and I think I've finally come to realization that there *is* no moving past the old stories. They are too vital to the shaping of the new ones. I keep my first novel (which I wrote when I was eleven and twelve) and all of its notes in a box under the bed at home. I'm constantly reading it, going through the various notebooks, remembering the actual writing of the chapters. I miss them; they're like old friends, people, as you say. No moving past old friends, no matter how estranged they've become. I by no means think that I've got only one story in me... I've just enjoyed writing The Chair so much that it feels good to go back and linger over it from time to time