Our Little Parts

Inclusion versus exclusion. Society seems to be battling with this a little more than it should these days. (Really? What heart ever gained by subtracting?)

Anyhow, writers of our relatively “little” standing can still do our part. Make it a point to include all races, all religions, all nationalities, all hearts in your “little” stories.

Welcome the world to your fiction and the world just may welcome your words to their hearts.

Until tomorrow…

Chloe  

The Fantastically Odd

Embrace the sudden snippet. Never turn it away. Do not snarl at its untimeliness. Do not scoff at its brevity. Simply welcome it into your novel and offer it some tea.

Snippets, those spontaneous outbursts of prose that appear out of nowhere and demand to be put onto paper “NOW!”, are oftentimes catalysts for all sorts of marvelous things.

Just such a snippet for novel #19 broadsided me last night.

A little dazed, I scrambled for a pencil and scribbled the little outtake down…

And just like that, the actual writing of #19 had begun.

How fantastically odd the creative process is sometimes.

Until tomorrow…

Chloe