How Strange is This?
Jul. 4th, 2006 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
queenoftheskiesI sat down at breakfast this morning (yes, thank you, I DO go to breakfast any time I can manage when I have a day off, LOL) to work on more plotting for my current screenplay and novel.
All was going well. Extremely well. I got some sections down that I didn't have clear in my head before.
While I had the ending all laid out and knew basically what the plot was for the rest of the novel, I didn't have a beginning I was happy with, nor did did I have intimate details...especially for the middle of the novel.
All of the sudden, the entire book...more or less (missing a few intimate details) popped into my head.
Only...
IT WASN'T THE SAME BOOK I WAS PLOTTING!!!
It was the same basic story, yes, but it wasn't MY book.
It was something MUSE had been working on in spite of my best efforts to plot the story I was trying to tell.
Which, of course, explains why I was having trouble with it.
She knew the real story that needed to be told.
And, yes, she liked my basic ending...she said only the last couple of scenes had to go.
I, of course, am digging in my heels, and telling her it won't work that way...especially for the screenplay since I'm going to use it for a class I'm taking and I don't think Hollywood is quite ready for this.
She shakes her head, looks at me (in my mind's eye) with those wise eyes, and tells me in her always patient tone, "If you write it, they will read."
"Yeah," I tell her, "and...and...laugh."
"Ah," she says. "So, that's what's been bothering you. You who write screenplays about super heroes and magic mirrors and people trading places. Yes, laughter would hurt. But, the spirit would hurt more if you don't write what you want. You must write not what you think you SHOULD write, but that which burns in your heart. If you don't...don't write. Don't fear to do your best or be what you know you can be...even if it IS different."
Sigh.
Muses are wise that way, aren't they?
The new story might never sell, but I love it and it loves me and I will make it the best I can.
Happy. :)
All was going well. Extremely well. I got some sections down that I didn't have clear in my head before.
While I had the ending all laid out and knew basically what the plot was for the rest of the novel, I didn't have a beginning I was happy with, nor did did I have intimate details...especially for the middle of the novel.
All of the sudden, the entire book...more or less (missing a few intimate details) popped into my head.
Only...
IT WASN'T THE SAME BOOK I WAS PLOTTING!!!
It was the same basic story, yes, but it wasn't MY book.
It was something MUSE had been working on in spite of my best efforts to plot the story I was trying to tell.
Which, of course, explains why I was having trouble with it.
She knew the real story that needed to be told.
And, yes, she liked my basic ending...she said only the last couple of scenes had to go.
I, of course, am digging in my heels, and telling her it won't work that way...especially for the screenplay since I'm going to use it for a class I'm taking and I don't think Hollywood is quite ready for this.
She shakes her head, looks at me (in my mind's eye) with those wise eyes, and tells me in her always patient tone, "If you write it, they will read."
"Yeah," I tell her, "and...and...laugh."
"Ah," she says. "So, that's what's been bothering you. You who write screenplays about super heroes and magic mirrors and people trading places. Yes, laughter would hurt. But, the spirit would hurt more if you don't write what you want. You must write not what you think you SHOULD write, but that which burns in your heart. If you don't...don't write. Don't fear to do your best or be what you know you can be...even if it IS different."
Sigh.
Muses are wise that way, aren't they?
The new story might never sell, but I love it and it loves me and I will make it the best I can.
Happy. :)
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