Subconscious

The writing is flowing pretty well at the moment but I find I am startled at the what is coming out. I know this sounds peculular but it's true. This book has been mulling in my head for over a year so my mind has had plenty of time to work with the basic seed and feed it well. However I thought I knew where it had sprouted. The last 7000 words just goes to show how wrong I can be. Despite my key ideas and basic plot this story has twisted in some very new directions for me - scarey but good - well, at least, at this point!

I continue to try and limit myself on Black Box Widgeting.......write a couple hundred words then two goes......there are some new interesting choices coming up now not to mention some fabulous blogs. If you have stopped by because of the BBW- what were the choices that brought you here?

Finally I can confirm that I will make to the launch of Caroline Smailes Black Boxes. I am so excited that things have finally fallen together and that wonderful sil was able to accomodate us in London!

Word Choices

Sex. Writing it has been a tricky affair for me however, in the wip, the second scene is straight in there so to speak. It was such fun to write. I mean serious fun. I love this character who is quite a rotten apple and this scene shows her voracious appetite. I wrote the scene without 'my mother' on my shoulder (Dad, if your reading this break it to her gently). The only concession to editing in the scene was the word I choose to type for part of the male anatomy. I wrote not the one I wanted to, but a more gentle term. I did this in the off chance that dd might started to edit my work as she is prone to do.

However I forgot I substitued the word when I handed the first ten pages to the Dh to read. I normally don't have him read my work but this book is a slightly new direction and I wanted some feedback.

Five minutes later I crept back waiting to be told what a lot of tosh it was but no. He enjoyed it??? He had trouble with the opening which we discussed then he said - you know what's happening and you rushed it. The reader needs more set up. Good comment I thought. I then ventured to ask him about scene two.......was it too much? would it upset a reader? Dh said upset no, but he would change a certain word as it it didn't fit with the character. Couldn't agree more - must remember to change all before I have some else read it.

Still addicted to Black Boxes widget. Give it a try. What are the choices you have made?

Black Box Addiction

Aside from chocolate I have never faced addiction before .......but the widget has gained control of my mind. Must refocus on wip and for all the questions except the one relevent to the current work!

If you are visiting from Black Boxes you are most welcome and I promise I am not normally this easliy distracted! If you haven't tried Black Boxes - know that if you click on decide you may never be the same...........

Caroline Smailes - Black Boxes

Finally I feel like I am catching up - catching up with writing, the blog world and just about everything in general. This is good indeed.

In the process of catching up I realized I have missed so much. Blog Friend and fellow Novel Racer Caroline Smailes has a new book out this month. Some may remember her first book, In Search of Adam, and if you read it you will never forget it. My review is here. I look forward to Black Boxes knowing it will probably rip me apart inside yet build me back up by Caroline's powerful writing. Time will tell but in the interim she with help of Stray have launched the most fun widget.......you could spend all the hours of your day, believe me.......

Two other bits to go with this.....one part of the widget allows you to ask your own question. Well, what came out of me I realize just may lie at the heart of my wip. Time will tell....

Finally if I can work things properly, i will be able to attend the launch in London of Black Boxes and I can't tell you how excited that makes me. I just need to line up all the dots to make it work. Keep your fingers crossed for me and let me know if you become addicted to the widget.

WIP - current word count 2100