It Begins Again

For people who do not know the history behind 'Run', it was actually something I came up with during the writing of 'Hauntings'. I created the cover you see above and even created a trailer for it. I, however put it on the back burner because I wanted to finished 'Hauntings' first. 'Run' remained through on my mind and I knew that after I finished 'Hauntings' it would be the next writing project I tackled. Well in between me finishing 'Hauntings' late last year and now, I hit a wall. The dreaded writers' block.

This morning however I woke up and for the first time in a long time I not only felt like writing but I actually could. Now you got to understand, there is a BIG difference between wanting and actually writing. I wake up many mornings, especially the last couple weeks 'wanting' to write. However I get caught up in my day to day affairs, which is sad to say, not much and by the end of the day I can not be bothered. It is not only that through. Things that seem so clear in my mind, I can not get to the harder part of putting pen to paper or in my case fingers to Word document. I have had a couple days like that, one too many.

This morning tho (which is now dated, thanks to this blog entry), that writer's block was gone and I was a dynamo. Concepts poured out of me and whilst I hit a couple false starts once I hit my stride I was confidant in what I was writing down.

As a writer I must admit the first chapter is always one of the hardest things to write. You always feel like you need to grab the readers attention. It was something we all discussed in my writers' workshop a couple weeks ago. Some of us have what some people like to call MTV attention spans. If something does not spring out and grab you, chances are you will not read it/ watch it/ whatever. With writing, that chance exists in the first chapter. If that first chapter does not spring out and get you, your book is probably going back on the shelf no matter how awesome the body is or jaw dropping your ending. So that is why writers slave over the first chapter and try to make it as dynamic as possible. Well after a couple of "maybe's" and a lot of "nah's" I have written the first chapter for 'Run'. I have re-read it a couple times, even read it out loud to my lovely spouse and she liked it too (of course she is bias but hey).

It begins again... now if I can keep up the momentum. The flood gates of creativity have re-opened and I want to make sure it does not get damned up again.

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P.S. I just did a spell check and I had no spelling mistakes at all in my first draft of this blog... yah go me!