Profound. I’ve linked to nine VP XIII’ers posts on the experience, and read a few more, and all the authors who’ve written about it have come out changed. There’s a lot of faith in ourselves that didn’t seem to be there before. It’s my hope that I can link as many of these experiences as possible. I hope that one of these posters speak to you in a way that would encourage you to apply. VP XIII’ers, please consider letting me link to you. I’m also working on a VP of the past collection, although I’m not sure how successful that call will be.
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I had a little time in the afternoon yesterday, and I wrote a bit about Sigfried and Quartz, who are two of the three frost elves who have story arcs. Quartz in particular I had envisioned as an antagonist, but it turns out she’s really a protagonist, just not a sympathetic one. She will really change in the course of the book.
I started on two climaxes that involve Quartz yesterday. I found I really needed to know more about Sigfried and Quartz’s history together. They’ve been making allusions to each other about their relationship, but they owe it to me to tell me what happened.
Last night as I drifted into and out of sleep, scenes of it came to me. In this case, it isn’t listening to the characters so much as it’s watching them out the window. I’ll write this background up as a short story, and send it out. When I know their secrets, I’ll be able to write Quartz and Nick’s climax, and Quartz and Siegfried’s climax. I’ll also learn a whole heck of a lot more about Sigurda as well.
I luv this awesome feeling of writer empowerment. It’s so much fun to give yourself permission to play, and turn off that editor until later, when she’s needed.
Cath
