Committing to what I choose to call the Creative Lunacy” of NANOWRMO I decided to pack up and join Camp this year, last-minute. I had no intentions to do so this Spring……….. until about 24 hours ago now.
Funny in an odd kind of way where inspiration and motivation can come from, funny also in a very cool kind of way. I have a head start as I have been outlining and character building since hearing a music composition by a friend about 2 weeks ago. A visual presented itself, inspired by the instrumental, a few paragraphs later a romance story was born. At the 13th hour I decided to commit to Camp NANOWRIMO. And then I gulped.
30,000 words in 30 days.
It started out from a brief innocent question which I’m paraphrasing – ” have a listen to this song and see what visuals it might create?” Those who know me know that – one – I write to music, two – that I love a good writing challenge. A fast free writing paragraph literally flowed out my fingers into a new draft. The working title is “Mesmerized” and takes place in a dense forest in the Pacific Northwest.
Today as I took the day to prep myself physically and mentally I had the gift of being involved in a discussion about fears that brought home to me that I know this feeling, fear. I have felt it before, and I know it will pass too. It reminded me of a post I wrote back in August called “Redefining Fear”
It seems apropos tonight as I prepare for Camp. And there’s another serendipitous connection made that I love.
http://barefootbaroness.org/2014/08/20/redefing-fear/
My wish is that whatever may be causing someone fear in their life that they might find a way to redefine it.
If you’re going to be at Camp this year I wish EACH of my sister and brother campers a happy month of creative lunacy!
Write on Campers. ~
ttaylor 2015
Barefoot Baroness 
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