NewBook is still accelerating, or rather trying to, since I just cannot type any faster any longer without the machine (the one that’s living on dark chocolate and junk food on top of a healthy diet just to keep the fires going) breaking down.<\/p>\n
It’s *almost* like being 30 years or more younger and able to write really, REALLY fast.\u00a0 Almost.\u00a0 But not there.<\/p>\n
But fun.\u00a0 OMG is there anything in writing like riding the story flat out while it unspools inside you in full color with sound, smell, taste, temperatures, textures, emotions, motivations, complications, plots popping like a whole sack of popcorn…everything just pouring into and through your brain as your fingers try to get it all down?\u00a0 No, there is not.\u00a0 I have written fiction in many different moods and ways and with different intentions and different lengths and styles and this…this is the cross-country phase in horse-speak.\u00a0 No more careful patterns in a dressage ring, word by word, phrase by phrase, leaving precise hoofprints on the groomed surface.\u00a0\u00a0 No more show jumping, scary and tedious both, rather like writing short stories or maybe verse with a tricky meter & rhyme pattern, but full on riding a fit horse across natural ground and however many obstacles (points of view, transitions from place to place, tricky “showing” instead of “telling”)\u00a0 brain and hands working together at high speed.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the big one, the best one, the thrill that never dies.<\/p>\n
I can see the finish up there ahead.\u00a0 But the rules are the same as in eventing, racing, anything with obstacles.\u00a0\u00a0 Ride every fence with intelligence and purpose.\u00a0 Don’t let up, don’t “drop” the horse until you’re through the finish line and then slow gradually, then start the aftercare\/repair phase.\u00a0 Not quite as urgent as with a horse, but the writer needs aftercare too, as does the manuscript.<\/p>\n
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