Kerri Loves her Libretto!

[skyring]

She's off to Sydney today - I'll get a phone call to pick her up from the airport any tick of the clock. She had a handbag and a small document case, containing her briefing notes for the meeting and her new subcompact notebook. It's as light as a trade paperback and you'd hardly know it was there. She is rapt in the power and freedom it gives her.

Me, I'm a bit envious, particularly as it's small enough that you could use on a plane, even if the person in front has their seat tilted all the way back.

Kerri, DD and I took a walk around "the big block" yesterday. We were talking air travel. DD and I are plane junkies - the other day we stopped at the end of the runway as we came back from our interstate shopping run and watched a 737 coming in to land over our heads - and Kerri, while not quite so rapt in travel, has certainly done a fair bit, both over the past year and with the Navy. I'll probably never get to Samoa, for instance, but she went there to join her ship on a cruise. I'm still finding it hard to believe that I've been on four continents, albeit the Asian bit consisted of the transit area in Changi. DD's trip to Vietnam was an experience for her, and she's planning to see more of Asia with her travelling companion from Vietnam. I think she's allocating some of the money from her first year's employment when she graduates.

I wrote a bit more of my novel. This is too good to leave until November, and I suspect that the rest of the plot will come to me as I go along. Pieces are falling into place in that odd sort of magic that happens when writing.

But I haven't forgotten London. Or my other projects, and I do a bit of each as the fit takes me.

Comments

[whytraven.livejournal.com]

:: smile :: Don't be rigid about your writing. It's been obvious to me for a while that the novel is wanting out, so write it. You have copious notes from the other trips, so they can wait. Manuscripts are like cats and children. They have no trouble letting you know what they want; you just have to listen.

[silvanime.livejournal.com]

Easy to say, not so easy to do. I've had at least 4 stories itching to get out, but I have to wait until I've finished all my homework. I'm jealous.

Any word on when we'll get to read some?

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Heh! When I work out more of a plot. I've got the bare bones, and I'm writing the start, and I know where to end, but I need more to put in the middle.

[bookczuk.livejournal.com]

So write what you have! It's kind of like life- we know the beginning and the end, but not how we get from one to the other!

[skyring.livejournal.com]

I'm writing! I'm writing!

[whytraven.livejournal.com]

No, actually, it's *not* easy to say - I have about 25 years' worth of experience of letting the stories come out where they will.

It's up to you to figure out how to make the space to write. If you always wait, you never will...I wrote my first and second books alongside school, stories alongside a full-time job, and now that I have more time than ever, I write *less* than ever.