Myristica's Page

I am immensely inspired.  In the over a year that I've been out of commission, I've seen an incredible leap of M/M authors and novels out there.  Some authors are just very prolific and that is what I want to discuss here.

Lynn Lorenz, Carol Lynne, Ariel Tachna and a host of other authors I have found have made writing their life.  Proving that writing on the side, for those of us who have day jobs, can lead to bigger and better things! 

Imagination is the key.  My mind is so bogged down with 'reality' that I have literally 'forgotten' what it means to imagine worlds as a child would.  To create and go anywhere the mind wants to take me.

If you are a writer, and you are stuck in a limited view of ideas, force yourself to expand.  Play act, I am serious.  Get action figure dolls if that's what it takes.  Set up models on a table.  If you can't draw, draw stick figures and do a story board.  Invest the time in exercising your imagination.  Put yourself in another world, become your characters.  Act out the scenes.  Don't care what it looks like, you'll be by yourself, so who's gonna know?  Do it.  I promise it will reap rewards.  Become a child in your mind.  Not on the basis of the sexual angle, that's not what I'm saying.  I'm saying remember what it was like to imagine as a child and how you play acted all the time, wrote stories, told stories to your friends or siblings or parents.  Sure they probably said, "Oh, isn't that cute?"  But take it to the next step. 

Enjoy the worlds you create.  Let them invade your thoughts, Paint images, talk to you, be one with the story line.  I am inspired.  Where I thought my life this last year was a battle to live, I now feel energized and can see myself as a writer, churning out story after story.  Imagine the worlds...and they will be born.

Get to it.  You've got a story to write, and if possible, hundreds of stories to write.  Life is good.

Write on!

~Myr~