Charlie's Worldwriting
The observant among you might recall that I have a romantic notion of being a writer.
I have lots of good ideas for book, some fully imagined and started but on hold, some as shells of a vague plot outline, and some as nothing more than words in my head. Trouble is, I keep getting more ideas than I can actually write and sometimes, the new ideas burn brighter than anything I have in progress.
Well not this time, I’m carrying on with what I’ve started no matter what. New ideas are written down, filed and forgotten for now so I can concentrate.
I’m setting word goals, have chapter outlines and a very definite perspective from which to do this. Also, unusually, I have no clear idea of how I’m going write the detail. I know what the plot is, well, kinda, I know some of the events that are going to happen at the start and at the end, now I have to join them together. Which is interesting. I love to have all angles of a problem bounded before I can fill in the details. It’s what I do for my job and it’s very much how my brain likes to work. So having to fill it in as I go means I have to pay very careful attention to making sure I don’t waffle (unlike this post then!) and always set something up so I can carry on with the next chapter.
I’ve already been back to the first few chapters a dozen times and chopped, hacked and butchered them to make them flow with what I is unfolding on paper and I kinda like it this way – its a bit more organic, less pre-imagined and more natural as a result. It’s going to take a herculean effort to whip it into shape once it’s all written, but I can actually see this one being finished one day.
And now, back to Chapter 3, I need to fill in the view of the world according to the mind of one of my characters and it’s proving to be a bitch.
For company though, I have The Jezabels – a Sydney based band with the most incredible sound and soaring vocals from a very interesting singer. I can’t guarantee you’ll like them, but it’s definitely worth a listen if just to hear something new and different.
Charlie's World 
Charlie, I really enjoy your post so I know anything you write in the form of a book, will be great. I can’t wait to hear more about the book and when you finish it. Great post as always Charlie and Happy Valentine’s Day to you and your family.
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Thank you 🙂 We’ll see how it goes – its a different style to my blog writing, maybe thats not a good thing! Perhaps I should be thinking of writing in my slightly slapstick stream of consciousness kind of way like my blog 😀
I’ll let you know when it’s readable!
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I think you should write how and what you are feeling. Your blog post are incredible so never underestimate how good your writing is. I can’t wait to read some. Seriously, I might have everyone in my family reading it LOL.. we all like to read.
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