Processional

I'm a seat-of-the-pants type of writer. I work best by putting some characters at cross-purposes in an interesting situation, and running with it to find out what happens. Sometimes (especially when working off a myth) I start with a vague idea of where it's heading, but often enough I don't get that till at least halfway through. And I don't detail what happens next until I'm about to write it, because knowing too much kills the talespinning impulse. Perhaps not the most efficient process, but it's mine. The only way it can work is to trust myself, to believe that by the time I get just a little further on, I'll have figured out the next little bit. Sometimes, of course, that doesn't happen, so, yes, I do have a trunk of stories that died partway through. And sometimes I take wrong turns and have to back up till I find where I veered.

All of which is prologue for ( some self-indulgence. )

Such are the joys of the writing life.

---L.