Can't sleep? Write!
Actually, some of the not sleeping is because the characters have taken up residence in my head. And that can be a good thing really.
As opposed to I'm trying and trying and trying to come up with the next avenue the characters take and I've spent plenty of time doing that.
So what do I do? Keep trying to tell them to go to bed? Which ain't happening because when they're dealing with issues in the story, I can't just turn them off or tune them out. And I KNOW from past experience that if I tell myself I'll write it down when I get up in the morning, most of the time, I won't remember the scene at all. Sometimes I do.
This is who was giving me trouble last night. Doesn't she look like a real troublemaker? Well, she is!
What I've been told by writing gurus is that if you keep remembering a scene even when you don't write it down, it's not going to go away and add it to the story. But the ones I can't remember were great, too. So that's not the reason they didn't stick. I can be taking a shower and the same thing happens. I can visualize the whole scene (not in visual detail as people's features or the setting, but the dialogue and action), and when I get out of the shower, poof, it's gone. Or I'm driving somewhere and by the time I can stop, same thing.
So why does this happen? Why are some scenes so memorable that you can remember them over and over and over again until you quit delaying and write it down, and others are not?
The interesting thing is that if I wrote the scene down, usually when I reread it, I'll be like wow, I didn't remember that. It's a great scene. Great idea. Sometimes I vaguely remember them, but sometimes I really don't. So is it our subconscious speaking and it's so elusive that if we don't capture it on paper, it's lost forever?
You didn't know this writing thing could be so profound, did you?
The bottom line is that I tried to go to bed but the scenes kept coming to me so I figured, what the heck. Time to write some more.
I ended up writing a record 6,000 words on Dragon Fae. I had started out with 400 words to the story yesterday morning and didn't start writing again on it until yesterday evening as I was adding 3,000 to Highland Rake! So not too bad! In a day's work!
I'm off to type up notes and then get back to writing on Highland Rake. In the first book, Winning the Highlander's Heart, the heroine has the ability to foresee some events in the future. In The Accidental Highland Hero, no paranormal issues. In Lady Caroline and the Egotistical Earl, the heroine has a photographic memory. I always wished I could have one of those!
So in Highland Rake, the heroine sees ghosts.
Off to write! Have a super great Hump Day!
Terry
"Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy IS reality!"
www.terryspear.com
That's the problem with being a writer. Truly. I have all these demons in my head. Well, not really. But I can be minding my own business, and the next thing I know, a story is filling pages. I had this teen book halfway written, the scenes just coming to me for Demon Trouble Too. I wrote 16 pages on the flight out to see my son and daughter-in-law in Pensacola, and when I was there, I was revising and writing and having fun.
Because that's what creating stories is all about. Sweating through the bad stuff. Not my bad stuff, but their bad stuff. Trying to figure out a way that despite all that's going on, they can have a happily ever after.
Oh, sure, I know a lot of teen drama doesn't have. But sorry. When I was a teen, my dad was laid off with countless other space program employees. We struggled to keep our house until we could sell. I love happily ever afters. I want a happily ever after. So even if the stories are a little dark, as my daughter would say, there's always a rainbow.
What about you? Do you love the tear jerkers? Or are happily ever afters the preferred reading material for you?
The Trouble with Demons (Demon Guardian Series, Book 1)
Ebook By
Terry Spear Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: March 10, 2011
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Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy Words: 65301
Witches and warlocks hide their true identities from the rest of the human population, while three teens with demon heritage living with human families, become unlikely companions in a race against time to deal with a demon threat to humankind in their own quirky way. Alana is a half Kubiteron demon, half witch who witnesses a Matusa demon murder his summoners. He sees her in her astral form watching him and she's next on his list of victims.
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And the 3rd book in The World of Fae, THE WINGED FAE is available!
I'm working on another couple in the series, and also Tom's story of the wolf fame! :)
The Winged Fae
Ebook By
Terry Spear Published: Sep. 02, 2011
Category:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Romance Category:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy Words: 45210
Serena, a royal member of the Mabara winged fae, has one goal in mind. Stop an impending marriage with a dark fae. As the fae are known to do, she stirs up trouble that she hopes will make her point and get her off the hook. Only nothing goes as she plans.
Niall, a royal member of the Denkar, aka the dark fae, is visiting South Padre Island when he catches a winged fae painting graffiti on a wall on the island claimed by his people. He is at once fascinated with the lovely girl and intrigued by her audacity, but as one of the Denkar, he must take her to task. Yet she's armed with a sleeping potion that makes his life intolerable. Between freeing her from his people's dungeon, her own tower, and fighting a knight in her honor, he wonders if he's lost his mind over one beautiful winged fae--when she's betrothed to his cousin!
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B & NAmazonAReSmashwordsIn The World of Fae, I have also highlighted a location I love--South Padre Island, Texas. It's just as magical a place as Salado is to me.
What do you think of the trailer?
Terry
www.terryspear.com
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