It is really amazing how easy it is to keep busy when one is trying to avoid doing something. A mildly suspicious e-mail can turn into a quest to track down the elusive truth. Potted plants can suddenly require the intense care that even the largest garden might not need. In short anything serves as a decent distraction from what you don't want to be doing. Still the time comes to just buckle down and write!
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When creating a story from scratch one of the most difficult parts can be finding the proper names for your character. A writer wants the name to fit. To express something about the character. Personally I poured over dozens of books and websites to find a name for my main characters. It took a lot of research to find one that felt right. I wanted a name that would call up a certain image in my reader's mind so I had to think like other people which was hard. One specific aspect of naming characters or things is that if people do already have a preconceived notion of what that name means they can suffer disappointment if the author fails to meet that expectation. For instance, search "Chocolate Lilly". You would think a flower with a name like that would look and smell delicious. But it has almost no smell at all and most populations look more like overripe bananas than chocolate.   There is a saying in volcano country:
"The Mountain Makes It's Own Weather." This is true of even ghost mountains like Mt. Mazama. Now Mazama collapsed a good five thousand feet awhile back in an eruption that forced people up to seventy miles away to dive into Klamath Lake and today it is still a little temperamental. For instance while I worked the rim my hands were freezing in their insulated gloves, my back was hot under only two thin layers, and it went from sunny and June to a quarter inch of hail on the ground in about five minutes. At least it is never boring. While they have never given me a full manuscript I have found some very interesting writing fodder in my dreams. How on this green Earth I am going to work the rescuing the driver of the inflatable car from the burning waterfall in the sinkhole that opened up by the Agency Creek Bridge into a believable story I don't know. But the after bit about my teeth breaking off at the gumline and falling out might be a little more realistic...part of a fight scene maybe. Far and away the most realistic terror however was when I woke up fifteen minutes late for work... then the three clocks in the room started switching times randomly.
THEN I woke up. . . Ah well the first night in a new place is always a little rough. At least I can get a chapter or two out of it now. Whether you are getting a novel published or getting started in a new day-job the one constant is lots of paperwork. On the one hand there are artist contracts and publisher agreements, on the other there are the piles of federal, state, local, and business forms that must be completed just so. It isn't particularly pleasant but it is the way the world currently runs. Ah, my brain is sore.
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