bobbie wrote...picking up where I left off...

Signing on from Bracebridge, Ontario in the Muskoka region. Cottage country 2hours+ north of Toronto (GTA). Writing from my laptop on a small table in an upstairs room with a partly slanted ceiling -- yes, like a garret. The window is like a live landscape painting of a snowy climb with wintered trees and the potential for deer to wander by and look back in.

It's been almost a month since I last worked on any of my novels -- yes, there is more than one that I started writing in 2009:

1. Hung Out to Dry -- 25,000 words drafted in September during the 3-day novel writing contest held during Labour Day weekend. It's about a young Newfoundland women in the '40s who gets pregnant against her will and ends up whisked away from her community to bear her child in secret, only to find the price she has to pay for her solution might be more than she can bear.
2. Protection -- 30,000 words drafted in November during National Novel Writing Month held every November. It's about a young Ottawa woman who disappears on a roadtrip to Montreal and how her friends try to discover her fate with no clues to follow.

I'm letting Hung Out to Dry 'compost' for a bit as I've sent the first 15 pages into the Humber College Creative Writing Program (Fiction) and got accepted. Since I'll be reviewing it in detail over the first 30 weeks of 2010 with a mentor, I thought it best to wait for the program to begin January 4th.

I thought tonight I would pick up where I left off a month ago with Protection, but I'm struggling to remember what was going to happen next. I think that's because I hadn't quite figured that out yet. Now that I'm back on it and can incubate about the storyline and get to know the characters all over again, I may figure out how it's supposed to go over the next 15o pages.

It'll come. I just have to have faith that it will come.