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Boy Meets Girl
[Day 10 of 30]: It seems my Muse and I have a bit more to write about along yesterday’s Elemental storyline. When I started to read through yesterday’s post, as a warmup to today’s writing session, I felt there was so much more left to discuss between these two characters. I really wanted to see how a Boy Meets Girl scenario played out when one person was already hopelessly in love with the other. I’m very intrigued by the idea of magic based on the 5 Chinese Medicine Elements (Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, Fire) and I feel my Muse get excited with the chance to explore this alternate mystical theory.…
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Where Am I?
[Day 9 of 30]: Today’s writing is a little more refined, simply because my Daemon editor was in full swing the last few days. This is part of story that I’ve been working on for some time. Okay, not exactly working on…. more like letting it fester in my mind until I finally forced myself to sit down (thank goodness for 30 days of writing). There’s more coming from this storyline, although I’m not sure how far I can take it. I hit a serious block when I was trying to map out the plot, so we’ll see if I can follow it through the end. Or if I’ve got…
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Not Dead Yet
[Day 2 of 30]: Since this is my second day, I’m still filled with embarrassment at the silly things my brain throws onto the page. On the other hand there’s also hope that I’ll be learning something from the entire year of practice ahead. And I’d have to say that I truly enjoyed this writing prompt. I love mysteries, so starting with something that I could morph from mystery to dark humor to science fiction was a lot of fun. I immediately changed the name of the pizza place from Guido’s in the original, because the picture inspired me. My Inner Critic, who I endearingly call DAEMON (grrr), tried to…