Today I had a whole hour in the pool, gently exercising and occasionally engaging my core. And then, what I had been waiting for occurred. My zen zone inspiration beamed in. Walking back and forth in the pool is pretty boring but it’s the right kind of activity to kick the zen zone into gear. I had been lamenting its absence. But there it was.
Yesterday I had a few scenes in my head and I wrote them down. I knew I would be reworking them because that just seems to be the way I work. Sketch out a scene, go back and tweak the dialogue, add thoughts, scenery and so on. About 3 am an idea came to me about one of the scenes I wrote and I hurried to write it down, even though I kept saying to myself you won’t forget this. But I’m 66 years old. I forgot stuff like what did I walk into this room and what was the name of that character I invented and what was that scene I thought was great. So writing down.
Anyway, in the pool my brain went into hyperdrive–ideas, tensions, actions, dialogue, consequences all coming out. Basically, the upshot is–Don’t be so pedestrian. Give those ladies are very hard time. Make them suffer. do this. And remember this and do that. So, of course, I’m writing a blog post.
As my excuse I have not had a coffee yet.
Also other ideas that came to mind were…don’t give up on yourself. You can do this. All by yourself if you need to.
Donna Maree Hanson, Author, Phd in Creative Writing 