If you’ve been following these missives, you know my writing has felt anemic lately. It’s been very close to needing a visit to the ICU and life support. It’s on oxygen, but it’s hanging on.<\/p>\n
As I’ve been reading Stuart MacBride’s<\/a> Cold Granite<\/em>, something’s been happening. An understanding of how I might apply the things I’ve read about revision to Twilight <\/em>began to materialize in my mind. I jotted notes about how I might be able to make Threads & Ties<\/em> come back to life. Yes. Yes. I knew I needed to bring emotion into the story, but I didn’t have a clue how. Now I have some ideas. Nothing seems to tie directly to Stuart’s story, but something in reading this book has triggered a sense that my writing may just be able to breathe without life support efforts soon. I feel it regaining some strength.<\/p>\n A quick interim note on Cold Granite<\/em>…this book masterfully weaves so many subplots that it feels real. I’m so busy trying to match clues to sub-plots and looking for tie-ins, that it keeps me engaged. I didn’t get home from work until 9:30 pm last night, hubby and I talked for about half an hour, and I had to get up at 3:30 this morning to return to work. Between then, I began reading to calm me for sleep, but I struggled to find a place to put the book down (not very hard–I was happy to keep reading, but that nagging voice in my head saying, “You have to get up in five hours”; “You have to get up in three and a half hours” : “You have to…” really gets in the way). Finally, after midnight, I found a spot where I felt I could wait. I knew I couldn’t start into the story about Roadkill’s beating. (That doesn’t mean I’m not anxious to get back to it. I’ll probably be awake much too late again tonight.)<\/p>\n I’m enjoying Cold Granite<\/em>, but even better, something has triggered something essential in my creative process while reading it, and I’m thrilled at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’ve been following these missives, you know my writing has felt anemic lately. It’s been very close to needing a visit to the ICU and life support. It’s on oxygen, but it’s hanging on. As I’ve been reading Stuart MacBride’s Cold Granite, something’s been happening. An understanding of how …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-threads-ties","category-twilight","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14889,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions\/14889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}