Arundhati Said
‘Nuff said.
The Writey Sense
Ever read a news article that excites your writey senses and muses, a feeling that, “OMG, there’s a book that I want to write!”
That’s the writey sense, that internal mass that stays on alert to concepts, characters, settings, and ideas, looking for the next story or novel.
Just happened to me. I read a news article about a man who killed himself during a traffic stop. The police found a woman’s body in the trunk. I immediately flashed onto a title, “The Woman in the Trunk”. My inner writers and muses began marshaling scenes, including opening lines. I could feel the writing energy developing.
Despite the excitement (and the anxiety, what if I’m blowing off a great novel?), I had to tell them, sorry, not today. We’re doing other things, such as editing novels that are already in progress.
They weren’t happy.
Speed
I bought a science-fiction novel on Tuesday afternoon and began reading it that night. I cut out time from other things each day to read it. It had five hundred seventeen pages. I finished reading it Friday afternoon.
I wish I could write as fast as I read. That’d be something.
For the record, the novel was The Exodus Towers, the second novel in Jason Hough’s “Dire Earth” series.
Michael Seidel, writer 