The ‘it’ that takes off to which I’m referring is writing; I am at the beginning of a new novel, about 17,000 words in and so far it has been a bit of a struggle, but suddenly tonight everything has just flowed… and what a wonderful feeling that is!
I hadn’t really intended to write this novel, I thought it was going to be one of those which was just a story in my head, but somehow it ended up on paper. I had the main idea for it, the main plot line, and a couple of other minor and secondary story-lines – a woman whose husband has come under the sway of a religious leader of a dubious sect, a grave where flowers are left by an unknown person, a family falling out when a secret is revealed, a man approaching his fiftieth birthday with dread…But I just didn’t seem to be able to get going with it.
Over the last month or so I’ve been writing a couple of hundred words a day, forcing myself to gt something down, and felt as if I was wading through mud. I always have my current novel running in my head, and it was certainly doing that, the scenes, the conversations and confrontations, I knew what they all were, but actually writing it…
Then suddenly tonight – bam! 2,000 words and I’ve taken time out to write this! It is, as I said, the most marvellous feeling when everything flows! No doubt I will have to work hard later to edit and polish it, but at least now there is something to edit and polish!
Oh, and it might be called ‘The Last House’…
Lois Elsden 
Sounds like what I’ve been going through. Except I haven’t really found that flow yet. But there are many words left to write, so one day!
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You just have to keep going Dee! Good luck!!!
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