It happens to me all of the time. I am writing and one of the people I show my first drafts to are reading and suggest that something isn’t clear, or could be different. While they sit there I start to rewrite a section that the reader had a concern with and the next thing I know, something completely different is flowing and I am typing like a word addict. Some say I get this odd look on my face, like I am on another planet, until I am finished.

The muse can be a real pain in the butt. When I am writing in the wrong direction I get slapped around pretty well. I can’t write with flow, nothing is clear, and the story, well… if you spent some time in this section of the blog, you have to pretty much know it wasn’t going well.

A Novel Approach – Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give me feedback!

It wasn’t right to say Richard had been in love before, he was still in love but now he had been cleaved from her. Richard despaired that he knew what absolute love was for he had lived it and lost it. In moments of pristine clarity he both rejoiced in and mourned that he had been so abjectly and completely in love. He was not foolish; this was not puppy or teen love, but true devoted connection on a completely cellular level. Being lost to it was more agonizing in that he had been doomed by it.

Why this chapter now, and why no chapter number?
The placement of this chapter isn’t known yet. As the chapters develop I am sure it will become clear to me when this information finds its place in the novel. I provide it to you so you understand some essential motivations for Richard’s actions. If you have thoughts on when this should pop up as we write, I would love to hear your thoughts.

A Novel Approach – Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give feedback.

Jane Jordan finished locking down the convertible top of the candy apple red, 1957, classic Corvette and fit her lithe, aerobically perfect, body into the pristine leather seats of the car’s cockpit as she struggled to avoid thinking about her husband Dick. She cranked Van Halen rock and roll at old school volumes and scanned the road for cops and then for drivers she might be able to push into their own road rage.

When I started writing Jane, I had some extra motivation and a few role models.  I didn’t want to get on the other side of a lawsuit so I made some creative adjustments to her attributes, behaviors and tried like hell to make her SO bad, that no one could accuse me of basing her [...]

A Novel Approach – Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give feedback.

Before being snagged into married life he had always been Richard, not Dick.  It wasn’t until he met his wife Jane that he had been renamed.  The renaming had happened almost moments after he met her.  Even now he wasn’t sure [...]

More notes on writing Intervention the novel….
Claiming to fly by the seat of the pants doesn’t seem accurate when I am writing a novel while using a screen play for a road map to a story, but it is amazing how much things seem to change when you switch from a screenplay to a novel.  [...]

Writer Boy had plotted his “best offense ever” against the evil nemesis Captain Attention Deficit Disorder aka the CADD… aka… Captain Disorder.
For years Captain Disorder had been having his way with Writer Boy’s novel aspirations.  Certainly the finishing of the Dead Play novel by Writer Boy had put the Captain in a nasty mood and [...]

(How I get killer visualizations and shorter more cohesive story lines)
As you might have guessed (if you have read any of my other posts) I just ain’t normal. Ask my Mom, Ex-wife, Professors, and most anyone who knows me, I definitely do things differently. On the upside to that, I [...]

I now fancy myself a writer. Not a wannabe, not a person who buys the “The Writer’s Market” each year with every intent to start that magazine article, screenplay or great American novel. When I was that person, I decided it wasn’t until I had some amount of work completed, that I could consider myself to be a writer. (Click on the title to read the entire post.)