Of course what comes out when I do get to writing that short story or three will be whatever happens to trigger one of the bits and bobs bubbling along in the tidepools of a writer’s brain, or whether some unguessed monster will rise out of the deeper water…
It will have absolutely nothing to do with which of you dear people I love the best…I love you all…but which trigger is most delicately susceptible to the nudges given…
There is already one nudging hard to be first, and I know which is second…
But meanwhile I have to finish this one, which I think is real close now!
“or whether some unguessed monster will rise out of the deeper water…” Yep, it’s always fun when that happens… although it can also be disconcerting. “THAT came out of MY brain?”
I love the way you describe writing. Sometimes it’s like you are looking right into my head.
I was thinking of ways to illustrate the comment about unguessed monster and writers brain. The kracken preparing to attack? The cats preparing to defend?
Sometimes I think kraken describes it. Sometimes it puts just one little tentacle ashore—you grab it and start pulling: then you realize what’s behind it…
You termed this so perfectly in Hellburner. Villy (ISTR it’s JG musing about Villy saying) makes a comment about pulling a string and finding a snake.
Does it have anything to do with who owns the rights to what? Can you just pick up a thread in anything you once wrote, write something new and own it, publish it? How restrictive are those contracts?
The only places I can’t do that are in shared worlds of whatever kind, except my own. There are non-competition clauses, where I shouldn’t put out rival works of the same sort, ie, with another publisher, but short fiction—I can set in any of my created worlds.
Off the shores of Mospheria lies the Kraken. A fishing adventure….