For the first time, I’m participating in the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge! The concept is simple: Each day in April I’ll be blogging on a topic starting with the letter of the day, beginning with A and progressing to Z by the end of the month. Posts will be short and will relate to my chosen theme: my new coming of age story, Rightfully Ours, released April 1.
U is for Underground
When I began writing Rightfully Ours during NaNoWriMo 2010, without a clue as to what I was doing, I knew I was creating a story about, in part, buried treasure. Buried implies underground. I set the story near a natural gas well in an area with prevalent fracking. Fracking implies underground. Add the danger of a sinkhole – underground, naturally.
The connection seems quite obvious, but I didn’t put it together as I was writing. It wasn’t until many subsequent drafts later that my underground theme came to the surface. (Sorry. Couldn’t resist.)
With each of my novels, what I call this “writing magic” has happened. Themes materialize and connections are made, either by accident or the work of my subconscious – the underground of my waking, active thoughts.
Have you ever been surprised by connections brewing in your subconscious, whether in writing or in life?
None in my writing so far, although I’m not giving up hope of that happening (when I return to writing something other than my blog). But these things always seem to happen in life though; which is great.
I’ve had it happen a few times, but I’m always afraid in writing that it won’t happen again!
Don’t you love how things just materialize like that? I think we have the ideas, the concepts, in our minds, incomplete, and the mind can’t help but create connections and next steps. That’s when great things are unearthed.
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Eli@CoachDaddy
U is for Unconventional Loves
Yes – our brains want to establish order, I think.
Yes, I’ve found unexpected turns in my writing that suddenly ties up with another point I’ve already written. It’s exciting when that happens. I wish it happened more often! U is for Understanding URLs as you Build a Better Blog. #AtoZchallenge.
Me too! I love when the puzzle pieces all fit into place.