For my weekly Tuesday writing update, you may be tired of hearing me talk about writing, but I want to hold the tradition even after hitting my draft milestone a few days ago. I’m in waiting mode — or thank-god-I-don’t-have-to-think-about-this-story-for-two-minutues mode — while my initial readers read. But it’s taken me a lifetime to get in the habit of writing a little something every day so I’m messing around with new ideas, seeing if I can get one to stick.
The current idea is pretty formless still, an old setting I had in my head where I wanted to do my own subverted fairytale with a princess in a tower, a well-tender in the desert, and a black-winged creature in the sky. It’d also be nice to try some different perspectives – my current story is all first-person present tense told only from one character’s point of view. I’d like to try to do a small cast of characters and write in the third person again.
Or maybe I’ll write that story about the treehouse? Or the Spanish-American war? No, that needs so much more research and writing prowess that I’ll spend the next decade or so gathering. (Seriously though, it could be awesome.)
For now, here are my last sentences written this past week:
- 8/27: Luke and I quietly slip out.
- 8/28: I’m all alone
- 8/29: He ignores me
- 8/30: Yeah, I’m sure.
- 8/31: But I wonder if we’re here because Jules thought the same thing.
- 9/1: I wonder who the black-winged creature will believe: the world or me?
- 9/2: It was not his way
With Love,
Natalie