Break!! Through!!
How awesome! This is what happened: I read my Holly Lisle newsletter yesterday, the last one, about how something was missing in her story and nothing she did brought a solution, and then in the shower, randomly, it came to her.
It took FOREVER yesterday to GET to the shower, but while I was there, I thought I might try to figure out a way to make worldbuilding fun, or at least a whole lot less like root canal or labor & delivery. I begrudgingly built another typed out page, answering questions that I didn’t want to, knowing too well that a book that involves politics, a ruling monarchy and a coup needs to have it’s history, culture and foreign policy worked out. Argh.
I finally got in the shower, plopped on the shampoo and let my mind wander back to Earth Science, a class I took 10 years ago, and thought about a planet accreting together from the dust in the cosmos.
Don’t ask me HOW, but that did it. 15 minutes later, I’d gotten all the way up to nearly modern times in my country, and even started to form the underpinning theology of the major religion, also critical to the book. I still have big swatches to go through, like foreign affairs, but I went to bed, opened my notebook and let my world grow. AWESOME!!
Glad to hear you made it through a stumbling point.
Before the hot water ran out I hope?
Well, yes, Ilana, lol… but not before dear husband turned the central air on, forgetting that it hits you DIRECTLY as you retreat from the shower…
Woot!!! Don’t you love how those breakthroughs always happen when you’re in the shower? For me it’s driving, but the effect is the same–can’t grab a pen quick enough!
Waa hoo!!!
Yes, LOOOOOVE the shower! Font of both relaxation and inspiration…
Too new a driver for it to work there, I swear, I intently stare at the road whilst I drive. I even have a tough time using the rear view mirror too much, but at least I have just mastered the radio! lol…