Confession: I had a long conversation with a stranger in a train on the way back from the city today. I think he was a stoned-out ex-hippie. It was fun.Reading:
- Someplace to be Flying, by Charles de Lint
Writing:
- "Ferian Fetlock Cures a Horse"
Revising:
More ideas for DL today, or at least, an idea about how to get ideas. One weekend, I will take the train into the city, visit the Met, and wander through the various galleries looking at the portraits and landscapes. I will take a picture of each one that inspires me, and also sit down right in the gallery with a notebook and write up a little character sketch, or description of the setting.
They say a picture is worth 1000 words, but I'll probably keep these closer to 250.
The idea is to build a character library of descriptions and characterizations that I can turn to when I need someone to fill a role and I get stuck. This can work for other stories too, but DL is where I got particularly stalled with such things.
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