Ockham Media

I continue the lonely journey of crafting a novel. I mean lonely in a good way. Sitting down with my laptop and a hot drink while my daughter slumbers peacefully is the highlight of my day. The words aren’t flowing right now. I am at a tricky part of the re-writes, but I am so enamored by the process that I love the agony anyway. I forgot how much I love this magical process.

Also, I have been writing a lot of “philosophical” essays lately. Maybe I’ll post a couple on here, not sure yet.

Music Video #2 is on hold. It got stuck in casting and it still needs funding. That’s ok. There’s not a big rush on it. In fact, the purpose of music video #2 is to promote my novel, hee hee. Pretty sneaky, huh? I’ll elaborate more soon, but this whole novel project keeps expanding into other media forms, which is a perfect fit for this particular novel.

I don’t want to jinx anything, but I may be getting on as a camera person for a documentary project! I should know more next week. Happy Thanksgiving!

*Oh, one more thing that has nothing to do with anything. But, I want to announce it here as my way of putting it out to the universe. Our travel destination for 2011 has been chosen. We will be going with both kiddos…

The writing process is so bizarre. After weeks of creative gridlock, I decided to sit down with my laptop today to work on the novel. I hadn’t touched it in weeks. After meeting with my editor on Friday, I was even more worried about getting back to it.

According to my editor the basic structure of the story is good. These next rewrites will be dedicated to expanding the story. One character needs to establish a deeper role in the story. I never quite developed her into anything interesting or helpful to the story. Also, we decided that one character who is eluded to, but never takes an active role in the story is far too important to have an offstage role in the story. So I now must add another story line to an already complicated story that covers multiple time lines. So all this was heavy on my mind when I sat down at my laptop this afternoon (with my hot chocolate).

My mind wrestled with itself. For a good 45 minutes I hemmed and hawed and squirmed in my chair trying to find the missing pieces of the story. Then suddenly….I got an idea. I began typing like a mad-woman to capture it before it disappeared. It wasn’t a brilliant idea. In fact, it was kinda dumb. But that dumb idea lead me to another idea that definitely had substance. It was then I felt the faucet begin to trickle. Creativity, slowing dripping into my brain. By the time my daughter woke up I only had 500 words, but I was totally absorbed in the idea and the trickle evolved to a steady flow. Darn, too bad I had to stop then. But after my hiatus to this novel, as I come back to it, I am still in love with the story. I am still enraptured by the characters. It’s amazing I’m not sick of them yet, but there is more of their story to tell and I am their messenger. I hope I am finally exiting the creative desert.

I wish I had something exciting to share, but I do not. It seems my wellspring of creativity has dried up as suddenly as it began. All of a sudden nothing. zilch. nada. I’ve spent the last few weeks banging my head against the wall trying to force the creative juices to flow again, but no luck. I do have a meeting with my editor this week and I do plan to crank out more re-writes on the novel over the holidays. But otherwise, my cup has run dry. I am exhausted from exerting effort and going nowhere, so I am taking a break. No use fighting the forces that be. I will write again when I have some good news to share. Maybe next year. Just kidding.