Tired and Contemplative
Well, it's just before midnight on Sunday here. So Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it. I've had a busy day with choir and Easter egg hunt at church, lunch with my brother-in-law's family, and work on the new house we've purchased (which needs a great deal of fixing up before we can move in.) I was painting, and my husband and three-year-old son were taking out the stairs to the 2nd story because they need to be rebuilt. My son's contribution was knocking holes in the wallboard that was being taken out and yelling, "Mommy, look at my deconstruction!" He's very funny...and has quite a vocabulary.
I've been getting such a nice welcome and good comments on my first drabble. I've become comment-obsessed. 8) Oh, I'll get over it... The scary thing is the comments about more writing. I was an English major in college and have taught grammar, literature, and writing for 15 years. The mechanics of writing come easily for me. But for the last 20 or so years, my creativity has gone into directing choirs and plays, acting, scene painting, teaching...but not into writing.
So I think I'll try to keep working on drabbles for a while. They give you ideas there. (Story starters I can understand; they're a common teaching tool.) My mind boggles a bit at the thought of how a person would plot and develop a longer story, even if the germ of an idea was there. So I'm asking those of you more experienced than I: 1) Where do your ideas come from? 2) What are some ways you go about developing them? 3) How do you work your way through a rough patch in your story--when the plot or character development hits a snag?
Now it's after midnight here, so happy Monday to you... I'm about to toddle off to bed...
I've been getting such a nice welcome and good comments on my first drabble. I've become comment-obsessed. 8) Oh, I'll get over it... The scary thing is the comments about more writing. I was an English major in college and have taught grammar, literature, and writing for 15 years. The mechanics of writing come easily for me. But for the last 20 or so years, my creativity has gone into directing choirs and plays, acting, scene painting, teaching...but not into writing.
So I think I'll try to keep working on drabbles for a while. They give you ideas there. (Story starters I can understand; they're a common teaching tool.) My mind boggles a bit at the thought of how a person would plot and develop a longer story, even if the germ of an idea was there. So I'm asking those of you more experienced than I: 1) Where do your ideas come from? 2) What are some ways you go about developing them? 3) How do you work your way through a rough patch in your story--when the plot or character development hits a snag?
Now it's after midnight here, so happy Monday to you... I'm about to toddle off to bed...