My Cree-Ation...

[panik]

(Gotta say that with rolling 'rrr's in a Bela Lugosi voice)

Yes, I am having a creative spell; most refreshing. I'm still going over my book - I admit it, I was scared of it for a bit, after my melt-downlet of  last week, so it was with some trepidation I picked it up again this morning. I'm re-writing the bits that need it. and, there's no denying, they are many I just replaced one rather long and tedious passage about the Cuban attitude to life and death - one that went on, rather, about the rafters, and dead bodies washing up in Havana and all that with...

'It was rare to get a black-out out on a Saturday night when the movie was on; the movie is good for morale, the apagon is not. It was probably not a black-out at all, but some problem with the ailing electricity supply, carried in ageing, over-head power-lines – a constant threat to life and limb. I once saw one come down in a storm. It thrashed and arced across the street, spitting sparks, barely missing me and a group of men drinking rum on a wall. I was so shaken, I had to go home and lie down. The men just sat and giggled at it. Cuban’s have a cavalier attitude to life and death and all the big questions, generally preferring to ignore philosophy in favour of drink. It is what keeps them sane.'

... And I can't tell you how much better I feel.

Fic is going well, too - I'm writing the sequel to Chasing Rainbows with the speed of a newly-serviced Skoda taking the downward stretch of the M62 and have just written, in a sudden burst of sparkling, sugar-coated inspiration, the first 486 words of the Academy story. Oh lordy, that's going to be an angst fest, you mark my words!

Right, well, I suppose I'd better get back to it, then. I might make some coffee first though. I have a rather good Fair-Trade Guatemalan from Morrisons I feel the occasion warrants.

I hope you're all having a groovy time my honeys and that no one has felt the urge to be air-lifted by helicopter in the last 24 hours.

Comments

[jadebear07.livejournal.com]

Oh goodness! I'm sorry, I think I was reading someone else's LJ about them working on a book in the mental health field and when I saw your paragraph, thought it was a continuation...*slapping my forehead*. I blame it on the oh so funtastic week I've had at work. (insert heavy dose of sarcasm here) I really liked this passage, however, and it makes a lot more sense now that I've got my head on straight. *BG* I've never been to Cuba. That's what I love about books; the abiltiy to take you to those places that you've never been and may never go. I once was completely lost in a book set in Scotland- at a tractor pull no less. Very, very loud place to read peacefully, but my goodness, it was just so good!

I'm so glad you were able to step back and regroup so you could go on with your work. Quite frankly, I don't see how you could write anything so terrible. I don't know you that well, but I'm proud all the same of you for sticking with it and sending it out. Best of luck with everything! Sending you many spiritual tons of your favorite junk food!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Gosh, no need to apologise; I can see why you'd think that. Glad you liked my bit, and thanks for the confidence and affirmation - time will tell - it's usually at least 6 weeks before you hear back from an agent which gives me plenty of time to whup the other 10 chapters into line (o:

Sorry you've had a bad week...

"Sending you many spiritual tons of your favorite junk food!"
::is drowning in Toblerones:: Help! But yum. ::G::