Silver James

Writing should be easy for writers, right? Yeah, about that. Writing is a process and all of us have our own way of connecting the dots, mapping the route, crossing the Ts. Some of us can sit down, stare at a monitor and/or a blank page and words immediately start to race from our brains to our fingertips. That blank page is quickly filled with characters and descriptions and plots twists. Down and dirty and sorely in need of massive edits! Some of us stare at that same monitor/blank page and stew. We get up. Walk around. Stare out the window. Get more coffee. An idea nudges our brain. We nurture it, fanning the tiny spark into life and the story matures and hey, maybe massive revisions aren’t needed. Yeah, right. 🙄 And then we have writer’s block. Ack! This is me flailing. Writer’s block plagues everyone at one time or another. And all of us are looking for quick and easy to write, revise, edit, and publish a book. It’s the nature of our beast. The Universe even chimed in…

The long and short of it goes something like this…

When one stops looking for the quick and easy way, Silver, and just deals with what’s already on their plate, the quick and easy way soon finds them.

That one makes me hungry,
The Universe
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Actually, Silver, what could be quicker than beginning with where you are, or easier than starting with what you’ve got? Oh my, the wonder of it all….

Wow. What could be quicker than that? So, as I sit here today staring at a not quite blank page, I’m repeating to myself: What could be quicker than beginning with where you are, or easier than starting with what you’ve got? That’s a mantra for everyone who faces a task in their life. Start where you are, work with what you’ve got. Easy peasy, right?

This struck me for two reasons. Well, probably more, but two right off the top of my head. One, it’s a nice message to get and hang onto in dark times. Two, isn’t this the way a lot of romances work? Either the heroine or hero is in a bad place, feeling lost and alone, and things look their darkest and then BOOM! He or she walks into their lives and bingo. The story takes off.

Silver, there are some things that are best forgotten. And when I remember what a few of them are, I’ll drop you a line. But a couple of things worth remembering, that are all too easily forgotten, are the times in your life when you felt absolutely alone and uncertain. Yet somehow, perhaps beyond perception, there was a great click, after which suddenly a new friend appeared, an idea was imparted, or a connection established, causing the tides to turn and the floodgates to open.

And remembering this, should such “alone and uncertain times” ever revisit, however dark they may seem, you’ll at least be comforted by recalling how transient they always are.

Pass it on,
The Universe

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Silver, did you just hear something?

This is also often the case when actually writing and you hit a rough patch. Words don’t fit. The story seems convoluted and messy and just not…right. You’re frustrated, your Muse has run away from home, and you wonder why the heckfire you ever decided that you wanted to be a writer. And then…like magic…CLICK! It all falls into place. Don’t give up. It’s a good fight we’re fighting and we all know, deep down that the words will come. Yeah, yeah, sometimes they come kicking and screaming, but they come. Wait…did you just hear something? What’s clicked in your life lately?