Do you need a lot of time between books? Do you need time for a story to live in your imagination?
Actually, when I’m not writing I dedicate myself completely to live. I don’t seek stories or anything of the sort. I simply enable myself to be immersed in life – this way I know that somewhere along the line a novel will take hold. But I can’t force this.
‘You .. allow yourself to be immersed in life..’ This means that there are times that you are a … spectator of life.. When does this happen?
I am not a writer, but I think that the fullest and more .. productive times of my life are those that I was ‘taken’ by the .. current, that I have lost … control and myself has driven me to new sentiments, new thoughts, new … ‘virgin’ territories in my mind! Through this procedure, which maybe was pain, disappointments, illness, love, persons, ended up with me being a new person, a -regenerated from the … ashes- Phoenix. The most ..difficult periods are the most .. constructive and … productive. I am trying to find a word in English to say the word ‘συνεπαίρνω’, which in Greek carries the meaning of being ‘under spell or magic’!! The magic moment of ‘inspiration’, as by itself says it : In + SPIRIT.
LOVE,
Thelma.
LOVE,
Thelma.
To write about the truth about our human mission, to protect and not to use, is a nice thing. I just want a peaceful earth, so that my children can live and bring the generation along, as we have done in several of thousands years. Love Are
Touched by your answer, Mr. Coelho. This morning, I was there, wondering why is it so hard at times to simply “live, enable myself to be immersed in life … and when I read the words “knowing that somewhere along the road …” faith … For now, I have so much to do, think, the kids, my mother’s sickness, the Foundation, my intimate relation … anxiety is rising in my body … faith … I doubt of my capacity to follow my dream … I let myself distract by insecurity … I have this dream, like a new book to write, and life and his Master will guide me there. Letting insecurity invade me will distract my body and mind from listening, viewing and feeling the important messages … Your answer made me come back to confidence in me, my God and my dream, and brings me to what is most important … live the present time. Thank you.
I understand Paulo what you are saying… Living… and as we live, we change day by day, even hour by hour, and if we hold onto a story without letting it (the story) change with us, then I don’t think it will make for an interesting story. Since the story hasn’t evolved with us, then it stays in the past and somehow becomes blocked… if that makes any sense.
love.
Yes, but what about your white feather? When you find it, ideas start to take shape in your mind, or you already have a plan? How many times you change the thread of the story during writing a novel?