Peg, I want to thank you for the image of dropping a stone down a deep well and waiting for the sound. I've been thinking about how we can apply that to many endeavours of the heart like love, or raising children. It's most wonderful.
These comments about your back brain are helpful, too. I worked on a novel throughout my teens and started working on it again while I was married, but it has sat practically untouched for years now. Sometimes I hear the characters calling me to pay attention to them again. I think I have to rework the plot so it is meaningful to the person I have become. It's difficult because I feel drawn away from fantasy, but the characters belong in a fantasy, and I'm deeply attached to them. The Wild Swans has made the fantasy genre seem more accessible to me again.
It has also suggested ways of presenting gay characters. None of my old characters were gay; that would have been unthinkable when I was younger. Perhaps I can bring them back into my active imagination by letting one or more of them be gay.
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Date: 2003-08-01 09:41 pm (UTC)These comments about your back brain are helpful, too. I worked on a novel throughout my teens and started working on it again while I was married, but it has sat practically untouched for years now. Sometimes I hear the characters calling me to pay attention to them again. I think I have to rework the plot so it is meaningful to the person I have become. It's difficult because I feel drawn away from fantasy, but the characters belong in a fantasy, and I'm deeply attached to them. The Wild Swans has made the fantasy genre seem more accessible to me again.
It has also suggested ways of presenting gay characters. None of my old characters were gay; that would have been unthinkable when I was younger. Perhaps I can bring them back into my active imagination by letting one or more of them be gay.