Oh this week... this week... this week...
Well my writer brain has been very ON this week. As in seeing things and making connections for stories, mostly ideas as they relate to TYW and one big item was realizing that a scene I dreamt earlier this week, and the mysterious character was a potential tie in for one of the big picture ideas for TYW. A big picture idea that I hadn't realized until I thought more about who this new character was and how they might fit into the story. I'm still putting the pieces together but I think if I ever expanded TYW into a series or figured out a way to rework the first draft (making it turn into a larger book) I'd include this character AND probably include one of the final scenes I had thought to write but scrapped at the end. It's a scene my mind keeps coming back to time and time again but it seemed so random to add at the time but with this new scene in mind, it doesn't seem so random anymore.
I think the reason this is all making sense now because of the dream but also because I always remember this advice I've seen others writers suggest and that's combining ideas. I had the idea for the TYW years ago. Around the same time I believe I also had another idea, which seemed random and I never got very far with it, just some scenes, but now when I think about those scenes I can see them happening with Folly as the backdrop. Folly is the world within TYW. So hopefully tonight I'm going to try to free write/expand a bit on these two and write more about who I suspect this new character is and their significance to the story overall.
Besides TYW ideas sparking from just observing the world around me, I also heard this character voice this morning while getting dressed and it was bugging me on the morning commute then it hit me. And I started working out who it was and why it was they were saying what they'd been saying, jotted this one down as something related to L&P, the revenge deity story. So I'm very excited how my mind has been going this week and it's definitely coming at a time where I can use the distraction/getting lost in my own stories.
Given my work week with the various fires after the release with my projects I sought to shoot out of work early since we worked the release last Friday until 3am! Then I worked a bit on the weekend AND I took Monday off but I still had to sign on for issues with one of my project teams. So today not realizing it was going to be as quiet as it was I got the okay from my manager to leave early, went to the library with the intention of reading/writing and thought I was stealing some time for myself only for that to go down the drain :(
Tomorrow I'm going to be prepared. I plan on packing either my MD or TYW binder and heading to the library or a coffee shop for a solid hour of quiet time at least before I pick up my niece from school.
At any rate off to work on one of these ideas. Or maybe I might read. Or nap. Still a wee bit tired.
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