*click*

[ksmith]

The cold was still dragging me down this evening, so I gave up trying to do anything useful and lay down and listened to music...

..."lie takes an object, and lay never does." "Or is it reversed, lay and lie? I reread that line and reread it and reread it and I *still* can't figure it out. Calls herself a writer. Crike...

...London Suede, Neil Young, Chemical Brothers, Hives, other stuff I haven't listened to in a while. Imagined My Life As A Spy/Rock Star/Int'l Woman of Mystery. Thought about the climax of Jani 5, working through some hand-to-hand combat scenes, a chase scene, one of the big confrontations. Luna's "Chinatown" playing in the background. Imagined Jani talking when...

...*click*.

I had sort of made up the idomeni religions as I went along, adding things when I needed them and cursing myself when the things I added compelled me to take certain paths and disregard others. But Jani needed a sound religious reason to do something at the end of Jani 5. Not just a political reason, or even an humane reason, but some sound religious grounding that would solidify her position as a priest and tie her adversaries up in knots--they can't reject her reasoning without repudiating everything they claim to support.

Well, by George, I think I've got it. Something that fits in very neatly with dominant idomeni medical/religious beliefs, which meshes nicely with some stuff that took place in CI as well as something that happens in the beginning of J5.

And I don't think I've giving anything away here because by the time the book comes out, these posts should be well and truly archived and forgotten about.

It's a good feeling when the backbrain kicks in. When it flips through all the stuff you've written in 4 previous books and makes the one association you need to tie up a very loose end. Yes, I know, loose ends don't go *click*. They go "flap", like a fish flopping on a dock.

*flap*

Comments

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

I love it when that happens.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I think this is one of the best parts of writing... the fact that so much of it involves standing on a cliff, taking a deep breath and just leaping off, trusting that before you hit bottom your mind will have woven a net or pasted on wings, or offered you a trapeze bar, or whatever's appropriate at the time. :)

[3ravensringo.livejournal.com]

*applause for your creative juicyness*

I eagerly await the "flop" in question. It reminds me of the old "A-Team" line, "I love it when a plan comes together."

-Jim

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

It's a good feeling when the backbrain kicks in. When it flips through all the stuff you've written in 4 previous books and makes the one association you need to tie up a very loose end.

See? You really did know what you were doing. *g*

Yes, I know, loose ends don't go *click*. They go "flap", like a fish flopping on a dock.

Uh, no. They go *click*. Magnetic snaps.

click-flap!

[kaseido.livejournal.com]

marvellous news!

hope this bodes well for a Jani6...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I hit walls at certain points, just like any long distance runner/marathoner. I slog and slog and slog, writing and erasing and not getting anywhere. Yet I have to keep pushing because I know, eventually, I'll break through and come out the other side. Things will fall into place courtesy of backbrain.

The scary part is, part of you thinks the breakthough will never come, even though you've been through the same thing countless times before.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

They go 'flop' until they go 'click. Molecular rearrangement.

It's great being a skiffy writer.