Novel Energy

by Patricia Parkinson

Writing comes to me in spurts. Even when I don’t think I’m writing, I still write everyday, even if it’s only twenty words or I’m editing, which I am trying desperately not to do, and you know what? It’s easier to not edit a novel as I have become so immersed in the story and what’s happening to the characters and I feel responsible for leaving them, on the brink of something, wearing bad clothes or crying or just sitting, waiting for me to write what they will do next.

I wrote more words on my novel the past two weeks than at anytime before. Roughly four thousand words! It was exhilerating! I felt the words rushing from me, spoke the dialogue aloud, played each part, every nuance and inflection of voice, of characters I am attempting to create, and tapped away at the same time and excitement overtook me and then I stopped.

I need the energy to come back to me. It will. Look out.