I'm ridiculously excited. I love the creative process when it goes this well.
Over the last couple of weeks, I've been doing extensive research for this creative writing project for my assistantship. I've been thinking through all the pieces of information I know, and seeing if they fit with the very rough story framework I came up with last week.
Talking with various people to confirm. Floating my ideas past people as the story evolved.
Last night, after I lit my candles in the living room, I was trawling through the web doing some more research and came up with a potential ending for my story.
I slept on it. I woke up. I called around to a few people to confirm that my story was feasible and sounded like it would work for the client. It is, and it does.
I've got a plot! Now just to write the story! Currently I'm waiting a bit on some final key research from some of my contacts, but that should arrive later today. And before then, I can at least start jotting down some parts of the story that don't relate so closely to it.
I love it when a plan comes together (visualize evil tenty fingers).
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
A Plot, a Plot!
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I'm a writer, an incurable reader, a narrative theorist, a media researcher, a scholar/author/writer/consultant, a PK, and the Queen of Soup Making. I write a lot, and I've taught a wide range of topics in universities. Along my journey I've picked up a PhD in Communication from Purdue and 2 degrees in English. I've been turning my ideas about communication as author-audience relationships into a communication paradigm that can be applied to a wide range of situations. I'm also writing a historical mystery series. I'm a member of Sisters in Crime, and the co-chair of the Mystery and Detective Fiction Caucus of the Popular Culture Association. My MA thesis focused on connections between T. S. Eliot and Thoreau, who each wondered about how to remain still and still moving. Before I went to grad school, I spent 7 years working for a division of HarperCollins Publishers.
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Actually, rather than evil tenty fingers, when I read "I love it when a plan comes together," I pictured you chomping a cigar and driving that black van the A Team always used.
Ooh, I like yours better than mine. And since it's fiction, I wouldn't gag on the cigar.
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