The story starts. At first I focus on the one thing, the one thing happening to this one person, a seemingly small act or a monumental one. Either way, it is important. The story develops, something more happens, details show themselves. This first person is joined by another and another. More people want in, want their say, want to claim their part in the story.
At first it’s great. It’s exciting to meet these new people. At first they are pretty polite, take turns, stay in their own spaces, but that doesn’t last. Their spaces and places and conversations happen more frequently, closer together, then they have interactions with other people at the same time in a different place. Such important things are revealed. But it’s not that easy to put onto a piece of paper and integrate into the story, scenes that happen at the same time. I want to get it all into words and paragraphs and chapters that flow.
Looking out at a stream or river or runoff in a gutter flowing by, it seems effortless and easy.
This Writer's Journey 