WILD LIFE

I see a collision coming.  When you have 2 trains headed in the same direction on different tracks, they got to meet somewhere.

How do you mean?

How do you mean?

Tommy and the gang going on their own plan, and Rick beign talked into coming up with one.  The meeting may be a meeting of the minds - or a clash of priorities.  In eitehr case, it will be interesting to see it develop.

oh, yes. i'm actually reading the story over again before i post. i don't remember what happens. i know it will work out, just don't remember how. basically i expect everyone to rise to the occasion, though.

basically i expect everyone to rise to the occasion, though.

One of the joys of reading your story is how you talk about it as if you do not know what is coming either.  That indicates to me that the story is writing itself, and is not from a story board laid down before words hit paper (it may have started out that way, but it has taken a life of its own).

I enjoy reading, but for the first time, I am seeing the process behind the writer, and that is as fascinating as the story itself.

Do you know something? Even with the storyboard, at least the way I'm doing it, because I'm working on something really really nice right now, a whole new cast of folks you'll love to meet, I'm sure, even with that storyboard, it's so spare. and if it's done very slowly, with an open frame and an open spirit, even when you're writing you are still being surprised, Some authors say they plot everything out and nothing surprises them, but i think they are second rate. Anyone who is any good knows you are opening yourself up to something, letting these people work their story out through you, and vice versa.