The Columbus Gambit....high-wire writing
May 18, 2007
H ard at work on the new novel. I run into problems and dream the answers. I’m at a meeting and I’m taking notes but am I really taking notes about the meeting? Or did something just occur to me? Writing a novel while standing on a wire, balancing a hundred feet above the ground, is not an efficient way to write. You tend to write way more than you need. But the journey of writing is exhilarating!!! To not know what’s going to happen next, and to embrace this wholeheartedly, is a joy. One could almost call this writing “high wire act”, a Buddhist process of writing, because it is moment to moment. It’s is an exploration of moments within a constrained idea of a story line – with a fixed number of characters.
My Zenari’s Americano is gone! The rain is pestering the day. The green is beautiful across the river... Andy Michaelson always calls me after I send off the sorbets on Fridays, says hey, reads me something he’s working on, and I really appreciate his responses…He is doing such great things out there in Edmonton’s soon to be annexed (hopefully) little sister, St. Albert. (kidding, we missed the boat on this years ago….too late now.)
I’m renovating this weekend. Don’t call. Only visit if you have scotch. Namaste.
4 Comments
1. Thomas had this to say: May 23, 2007 ~ 12:57 ~ #
You’re an idiot, Trofimuk. This book will never sell. Columbus is dead! Unless you can load up on really vivid sex, and some car crashes, senseless destruction of public property, and a girl named Carla who has 17 piercings, you’ll never sell this book.
trofs
2. Mike had this to say: May 24, 2007 ~ 09:12 ~ #
Hey, don’t forget contortionists and the grotesquely disfigured. They ALWAYS help sell books.
3. Thomas had this to say: May 24, 2007 ~ 13:35 ~ #
The grotesquely disfigured!!! Contortionists!!!
YES!!!
You are the wind beneath my wings!
4. ink slinger had this to say: May 24, 2007 ~ 22:18 ~ #
Mike came close, but I think the REAL secret is grotesquely disfigured contortionists.