Leaves on my Tree of Thoughts…

Some of the great things about writing a lot is that you always have something laying around that you can go over and re-do or maybe polish a little bit and it could actually be a good story or at least a good premise for a story. The down side of having so much stuff laying around is that you end up keeping a sort of an emotional tool  box laying around. Often when you stumble into the room, (Folder) you come across interesting stories that you may have started and stopped for one reason or another, and sometimes you come across a really bad story, but you can take a part of it and use it in another story. All of this of course is nothing new, all writers do this and they keep this “Room” full of ideas and story lines” etc….

The Down side is the emotional pull that you get when you find two or three really good ideas and you keep looking because you know there was another part of some story somewhere around the room, so you pick up this paper, and then that paper, as if you were literally cleaning an old dusty room covered with Papers that you had written this subject on or maybe that subject on, and then suddenly you find the “Stopper”, or that is what I call it! I call it the Stopper because it literally stops you from doing anything else productive, you kind of sit there and read the same page two, three and sometimes four times in a row and then suddenly you realize that you have hit a “Stopper” and now you have to pull your brain away from it before it starts to take too much emotional power from you.

I have also seen the “Stopper” be come the beginning or the end for another story, and when that happens it is a very wonderful thing, however it almost never happens that way and we usually hit a time vacuum and we have lost all of the wind in our sails….so much for writing that day, because what ever you have just found is going to set a small Bon Fire in your heart and it will burn for a day or two, and then after that you can start again.

I bring this up as I was sifting thru the leaves of my Papers, looking at the trees filled with my thoughts and taking a leaf here and bundling up a  few leafs there and I was hoping to start to work on a book idea that has been sitting in the back of my head, and I have come to the conclusion that the thought tree may need to blossom a little more with some more leaves before I can hop to get a book out of the orchard, but until then I do believe that there are some Short Stories in there…That is as long as I can stay away from those Stoppers like the one I hit tonight. There will be a low burning Bon Fire in my Soul tonight and hopefully it will ebb by tomorrow night and I can continue with my work.

I sure hope so…..

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