Showing posts with label Thinking 10. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thinking 10. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Book 6, Chapter 1

With a smile on her face she read the nineteen words of the final sentence, probably for the nineteenth time, and was, definitely for the nineteenth time. well pleased with it, despite the fact that the preceding 1440 words had been changed and changed again numerous times.   Mostly they had been added to, to clarify, using extra description, more precise adjectives, although, as always, the very first sentence, the one which was always the hook which lodged itself in her brain, which started the whole head-filling process, had hardly changed at all.   And starting from that first sentence, listening to the words her characters insisted on saying, putting herself in their places, remembering what had gone on before, the many and various interactions which had filled the previous four books, understanding how they felt towards each other, how they interacted, what emotions they would show, which conceal, she had arrived, unanticipated, at the last, because that was exactly what the man would say.

She pressed Ctrl and S, and then did it again, for luck, before reaching across to the wooden cup wherein lay her memory stick.   ‘Here we go again’ she thought.

[This was my response to the serendipitous four words of yesterday’s Thinking Ten prompt, read after I had done precisely this.]

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Inspiration; imagination


This photo, one of several taken in Stromness as source material for an exhibition I was working towards, was recently used as the Saturday 'Canvas' prompt in Thinking Ten - and it was fascinating to see the various pieces therefrom - and has now been used by my daughter as one of her 100days pieces:
 
http://jkdaviespractice100days2011.blogspot.com/2011/06/12-calendar.html

I just wish I'd painted it to start with!

Thursday, 21 April 2011

not quitting, but at least ahead

Today's poem is done for Jo Prescott,
and Thursday plot-changing T10

The Blurb book of Orcadian neolithic
is well on the way to all done

A failed competition submission
has been sent to the Camel Saloon

And I've sorted insubordinate lovers
so they're singing a different tune.

Tomorrow to a wedding in Somerset
re-stocking my notebook again.