Haunted...
by a story so intense, so poignant, it won't leave you. I have one that has eaten at me for the longest. I tear up just thinking about putting the first sentence on the paper. Why? Because I know how it will end and for that reason I want to cry my eyes out. The emotions which swirl inside just watching the tender yet powerful and passionate scenes coursing through my mind makes me want to sit and start on it, then I stop and wonder if I have the emotional strength to carry it off.
I have made a resolution to start on this story over the Thanksgiving holiday. It's not a full length novel or so it seems at the moment. I even have a name for it: Before the Last Leaf Falls.
Promises are meant to be kept, no matter how many years pass. Love never stops even when death steals the body, the spirit always remembers.
So I fully intend to use the next five days to begin this tale with the hopes I won't be an emotional wreak by the time it's done.
Hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving.
And if any of you have had a story which affects you to such a degree, let me know. I'd love to hear how you handled the writing and still remained stable.
I have made a resolution to start on this story over the Thanksgiving holiday. It's not a full length novel or so it seems at the moment. I even have a name for it: Before the Last Leaf Falls.
Promises are meant to be kept, no matter how many years pass. Love never stops even when death steals the body, the spirit always remembers.
So I fully intend to use the next five days to begin this tale with the hopes I won't be an emotional wreak by the time it's done.
Hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving.
And if any of you have had a story which affects you to such a degree, let me know. I'd love to hear how you handled the writing and still remained stable.
Comments
Helen
Love the title. Your story sounds wonderful, such an emotive introduction, this is the kind of story that must be written.
I have to say that three sets of hero/heroines plagued my brain for eons before I was brave enough to put them on paper. After typing the first scene (from the middle of one of them somewhere) I cried and cried and cried for the sheer sense of release. I can still feel the echoes of that moment.
It's been hard to connect with later characters as intensely as with those, probably because they don't hang around in my head so long! lol...
I haven't had a story hold me with that much emotion, I do feel a definite emotional entanglement with that crazy Oregon Trail story I've been working on. Chances are it won't be published, but it will finally get written. Because if I don't write it, I won't be able to think of anything else.
Missing you,
Nona
Hugs!
Linda
My story The Visionary did this for me....saw what had to happen...argued with God....repented, surrendered...still haunts me and will until the day it's PUBLISHED...not contracted, not in editing, but on the stands and doing some good!
Love Ya, Girl.
Happy Thanksgiving All!
PamT
Patsy
P. L. Parker
Now I'm petrified.
Helen