I Wanna Tell You A Story!

My muse and I are at war. I have a story that I so want to write, but she's teasing me tonight. She's revealed the story to me. I know how it goes, I know the characters and I know just how desperate they are, but that's it!

So far today I've managed to write about three paragraphs. That's it. Now, my muse (the bad girl that she can be sometimes) is laughing at me. If she would only help me write some dialogue, or some description, but for some reason she thinks I should do this all by myself!

But wait! I can hear her in the back of my mind. She's telling me to be patient, slow down and observe what she's about to show me. She wants me to stay in the scene long enough to bring out all the details.

That's what so many writers fail to do - stay with the scene long enough to learn all they can about what they want to say. So often we are in such a rush to get our story out that we wind up with pages and pages of "this happened and then this happened, followed by this and this." which doesn't make for a layered tale.

So, I think I'll go draw up a hot bubble bath, relax and watch the little movie that my muse tells me she has all set up for me. Then, more than likely, I'll pull out some paper and a pen and write something. You know, sometimes getting away from the computer makes the ideas come more naturally.

I know one thing for sure. This story is going to pull at me for a while and maybe that's a good thing.

Until next time.

T.C.