The Mind of a Writer by Morton S. Gray
It’s my birthday week and I find these milestones cause me to reflect and assess where I am at the time. I even found my thoughts straying to preparations for Christmas this week … no!!!!
I’m still working my way through my family history files and writing up the details into hopefully a useful, readable form in which they might be kept by my family. This is a fascinating process and has provided a considerable insight into lives in the past. (Smacks wrist – I do not need to write books about these people! But of course, I am tempted and plot ideas are appearing without effort.)
The branch of the family I am writing up at the moment in the mid 1860s had thirteen children, although so far I can only find twelve and the poor woman lost seven of these children before they reached adulthood. I found myself relieved that she didn’t live long enough to see another son die in WW1 and be buried in France, or another one emigrate to Canada. I don’t know if it is my writing brain, but I find myself getting very emotional at times as I can easily put myself in some of these situations from the past in my mind.
I tell myself that I don’t have time to write fiction seriously at the moment and remind myself I still have to illustrate my mother’s memoirs from our extensive photographic collection, but I can’t help noting down ideas – lots of ideas!
Since I attended my sour dough bread course with my next door neighbour, I have made a sourdough loaf every week and inevitable the time when I am mixing and kneading the dough often leads to new story ideas appearing in my head. I wouldn’t mind but the story appearing this week was not an historical tale connected to my family history, but a futuristic novel, with ideas for this new world coming thick and fast.
It has been such a busy week, with three different sets of visitors staying over, with the accompanying bed making, bathroom cleaning, towel and bedding washing, and that’s apart from doing the delivery and pick up of my grandson from nursery.
So, I think you could say that I am a writer with loads of ideas but at this point in time I am not making the space to take these stories seriously. I know it will happen, but for now I am noting down these ideas and allowing them to compost on the back burner. There is also the matter of deciding if I am a contemporary writer, a contemporary cosy crime writer, a timeslip writer, an historical writer or a futuristic novel writer! Hopefully all will become clear at some point when I finally get time to settle down to write. Any tips on deciding who I am as a writer welcome…
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