Writer’s Lament

DSCN4766journalsHe was always going to make an appearance in my book.  At first, the text was largely about him. But, people change over the years. With all the water under the bridge;  by the time I had scribbled my way through hundreds of pages, I had grown as thinker and writer.  He had morphed from hero to villain.  And She was still alone.

 

(Inspired in part by the writer button: Careful, or you’ll end up in my novel)

2 thoughts on “Writer’s Lament”

  1. Is your novel about heroes, villains, character, emotional health, water, bridges, growing, thinking, writing, loneliness or morphing? It’s true. Life is stranger than fiction. Or is that just what he said she said? Will you be in your novel? Oh, so many questions.

    1. Ah, Anonymous, I think you are probably better at reading things into poetry than I am at writing prose. This blog was meant to express a general trend in the way people change and plots change over time. Some writers have admitted to building their characters on people they know in real life. Others confess to characters that take on a life of their own and run away from the writer.

      If I had to pick one subject from the list; I would say my novels – all of them (that sounds so ambitious) -are about emotional health. Then, because I write what I know, the story includes music and mountains – and maybe a motorcycle or a dance thrown in for good measure.

      In the same way that God, the creator, is in everything, breathes through everything and by God all things are held together; so in a smaller way; Yes, I the writer am in all the characters in my book.

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