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If I took the time to print my Project Folders, I’d have a whole Dresser full of half-done trunk novels. I’m good at starting, horrible at finishing. No, Strike that. I’m horrible at sticking with an Idea.
But something’s happened recently. I don’t know if it was recent health issues, recent family issues, or my daughter going to school, but my whole outlook has changed recently.
I’ve finally put away a lot of the “Juvenalia”: the old ideas that have been floating around since high school that I know I’ll never work on. I got a new idea, something that I was excited about, but needed to do some research on.
And You Know What? The research was fun. Fun and Enlightening. I discovered that one of my problems was Characters: I’m horrible at characters. I get good images, good scenes in my head, but my characters stink on ice. No motivation. Cardboard. Boring.
But this is a historical novel, with historical characters who can’t help but live and breathe. they’re a blast to read about. To twist to my own ends. And they come alive. And now I’ve got ideas, scenes and characters.
It doesn’t feel like work, even though I’ve done more research than ever on it. It doesn’t feel like a dead end, or a “Trunk Novel.” It just feels like I might finally have a handle on this whole writing thing.
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