On Writing

          I wrote this in an email and I figured hey, it belongs here. ;-) I removed the signature line because for some reason it appears multiple times on other entries: think of it as an experiment.
          At least I am not the only slow writer on the list. *smile*
          The one thing that's been holding me up a bit on one thing I'm writing at the current time (I started several groups devoted to writing a novel this year, pledged to write a thousand words per week) is because the character that really started the story (an ogre mage) didn't fit the criteria because he -- well, he wasn't a man-eating giant, and the way I had conceptualized him wasn't as a man-eating giant. I found that out the hard way, since after the research I did on ogres I tried writing him as a straight giant (albeit very young and therefore a bit shorter than the norm) and it just did not work for me.
          I didn't want a troll for various reasons (not vicious enough) and I've read too much Xanth lately so I didn't want a gnome *since Good Magician Humphrey is a gnome-type). I finally decided I had to create my own. I finally came up with a name for his species. After checking name generators for inspiration, forgetting to save the file and then Terror saved it (to her hard drive rather than the floppy) and I couldn't get access to it, a name came to me last night and I wrote it down. After writing a quick character chart for the species (and of course checking sites when I get more free time at the computer) I'll be able to start again. It should work this time.
          Don't worry about being inefficient, just worry about writing. The rest will work itself out somehow.
          (I still have to come up with a beach themed horror story for an anthology too. AARGH!)






Regards,
Elizabeth Anne Ensley>
http://elizabethannemarianneensley.blogspot.com/