{"id":3416,"date":"2014-01-10T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2014-01-10T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T12:30:43","slug":"writing-fiction-and-melting-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3416","title":{"rendered":"Writing Fiction and Melting Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I moved to the beautiful NC mountains in August, I have found myself dreaming without actually writing. I wonder if other writers do the same thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6find themselves in a new place, or in a new frame of mind, and with no deadlines pressing them, urging them onward to further creation, I wonder if they too sit back, stare out their window at some verdant vista, and dream.<\/p>\n

I have been doing so for months now, and am only now beginning to come out of my own head, and only now looking toward putting stories on paper again. I wonder, once I begin, how my stories will have changed.<\/p>\n

\"Stream

I feel almost as if my writing life has been like the stream running behind my house: frozen on the surface, caked with flotsam and jetsam, with thick shards of ice. But underneath the surface of that ice, runs a steady stream, still strong, still vibrant, changing with the light as it rises and fades, moving over bare rocks, making music.<\/p>\n

I will pick up my pen again this weekend, with a sort of quiet joy. I wonder what kind of world I might create, and how it will look, my words emerging from beneath layers of broken, melting ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I moved to the beautiful NC mountains in August, I have found myself dreaming without actually writing. I wonder if other writers do the same thing\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6find themselves in a new place, or in a new frame of mind, and with no deadlines pressing them, urging them onward to further creation, I wonder if they …<\/p>\n

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