Facebook flog - Mar 3 2014

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Link: Mar 3 2014, 10:24
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

I promised myself when I finished the newest Merry Gentry novel, A Shiver of Light, that I'd let myself write anything I wanted to write next. I'd let my muse play. I just finished 6 pages of a new short piece, set in a brand new world. It surprised me by bridging to pages I wrote months ago, so my short story maybe a one shot novelette, but either way it was fun to throw myself off the creative cliff and build my parachute on the way down. (I think I'm paraphrasing Ray Bradbury.)

Don't worry, I'm not abandoning Anita Blake, but for today I just let myself go where the muse dictated. It was a rush to just let myself write and not care where it went, or what it was, or . . . to create for the joy of creating. Sometimes a writer needs to go for a walk off the beaten path, so we can come back to our beloved characters and worlds with a refreshed eye, and a new sense of wonder.