pondering

I love that word, pondering.

I have taken a week off from writing for many reasons; to step back from characters and the story and to immerse myself in my real life, another reason my hands and wrists ache from typing. The final reason just finalizing a year in my life in my diary. Oh yeah and to get some birthday and Christmas shopping done...damn and to make some stuff and as always to work. Pondering...it all and writing in my diary the best outcome for the New Year over and over in my mind and on paper. Seriously... spending large amounts of time, writing in my diary closing the year and planning the next. Taking all that I have learned about myself this year and focusing on the new year coming.

When I sat aside the book Curador for the week my first thought was man, is that it. Do I have anymore left in me, meaning how could I possibly have another book idea, I'm so brain dead at this point. So I comforted myself with thoughts of finishing all the others and then headed to work. As I'm driving; I'm thinking write your own happy ending and what do you know...an idea for a new book springs forth...Flagstaff Arizona and the title All Roads. Got to work while at work, doing some research and searching on ideas, and thoughts start filtering through... railroad, hotel, the Lowell Observatory, characters, ideas. Had to laugh and shake my head, but started a new file and started sticking the snippets of it in there. 

That is really how it starts, snippets of feelings, characters and a location. I start researching and finding intriguing tidbits of history. Then I feel conversations and write them down quick one liners as fast as I can type to what I think. Then I go back and start adding layers, over and over and over. I also start making a soundtrack of what kind of songs will put me in the mood of the book. First one on this book that came to mind while writing Curador, but was not on its soundtrack. But I cannot seem to get it out of mind for the new book All Roads. Take it Easy by The Eagles.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XByaqHhBFqE&feature=fvst

And then stepping back in Curador because it is by no means finished. I think about the original idea of it and getting some of that into it, because ideas of where I want to go with it are still surfacing. The barrio, childhood and hops. Also thinking about removing a character that has not really voiced itself and others that I have heard.  So yes pondering comes to mind and if I don't write it all down in some format I might lose my mind.