The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing by Shelby Londyn-Heath
Yep, you started with an idea. Where it came from, you're not certain, but it bubbled to the surface at the strangest times - while you were putting on your slippers and getting ready to tune out the day - or while you opened your eyes the next morning to check out the weather.
You planned to have a barbecue and it was pouring rain. Then your idea flashed across your mind's screen again. Since your barbecue was cancelled, you thought about that idea more, took your time, and built on it. You had time to write an outline about your new story, perhaps your future best-selling novel.
Okay, you thought, what would happen if you wrote a story about that homeless person who strolled the streets trying to find someone to help every day, and some well-meaning passer-by handed that homeless person a cheap lottery ticket? And you guessed it, the homeless person won thirty trillion dollars. What would he do with that money? How would he change the world? Would he give it away and become homeless again, or buy himself an island and send for the world's homeless people to live there with him?
This, my friends, is the ecstasy of writing, when an idea turns into a magic story filled with twists and turns, sparkling visions, and boundless possibilities. Enjoy that first step of your story. It is exciting. It pushes you forward, fills you with anticipation, suspense, and inner power. Revel in it my friends, because agony is next.
You planned to have a barbecue and it was pouring rain. Then your idea flashed across your mind's screen again. Since your barbecue was cancelled, you thought about that idea more, took your time, and built on it. You had time to write an outline about your new story, perhaps your future best-selling novel.
Okay, you thought, what would happen if you wrote a story about that homeless person who strolled the streets trying to find someone to help every day, and some well-meaning passer-by handed that homeless person a cheap lottery ticket? And you guessed it, the homeless person won thirty trillion dollars. What would he do with that money? How would he change the world? Would he give it away and become homeless again, or buy himself an island and send for the world's homeless people to live there with him?
This, my friends, is the ecstasy of writing, when an idea turns into a magic story filled with twists and turns, sparkling visions, and boundless possibilities. Enjoy that first step of your story. It is exciting. It pushes you forward, fills you with anticipation, suspense, and inner power. Revel in it my friends, because agony is next.
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Jan 17, 2017 01:37PM
I like your passage! I am sure that many may find "a direction" appear as they read about your process of "inspiration" and "path."
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Interesting passage. I'm just not sure how I fit into this. I'm a new writer who ended up with a book being published when writing a book was never even planned or intended. Maybe I'm just strange like that. I am learning so much about this industry and quite honestly intrigued. I guess my main concern or question is, how does one place so much passion or emotion into a new book when the previous one was already pretty high on the emotional side? How do I continue with something new with just as much passion?
Sergio, you got it going on naturally. You are in touch with your emotions and you bring them out of other people. Not everyone struggles with writing as much as I do. Part of that is because my parents were trying to shape me into their well-meaning version of success. The other part, is my own self-created doubts, after being called a dreamer all my life, by siblings and friends.Sergio, your book shows how strong and determined you have been to live your own true life from the time you could walk. Your power in living will surely translate into your power of writing. It already has in your first book!
