I'm working on my novel and started editing and rereading. I got to a point where I got kinda stuck. It was on a description of main male character #1. I feel like I shouldn't have gotten stuck, but I did. I went over the the Computer Room, which no longer houses a computer so it should be called the Green Room or the Library and we can play Clue in it. I came back with a book called Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg. It's a book full of writing prompts and I got it in a college creative writing class. I don't remember much about the class. But, I still have the books from it, one of the few classes I purposefully kept books from. I like the book so much I think it's called Writing Down the Bones. But, that is another book by the same author. And this book happens to mention that book on the cover. I suppose I should get that book also. I'm sure to like it.
So, I went to the Library (which also houses our costumes in the closet. Perhaps it should be called the costume room.) to get this book and sat down, picked out a writing exercise and promptly forgot the point of the exercise to instead write about the book and the room. That is what is writing is about. That is what writing exercises are for - to get the brain moving and the fingers tapping so that words flow and ideas form and men materialize in front of you.
Now, if only I could get men to materialize in front of me. I really would make a fortune that way. Poof! Here's your man. Poof! Here's your man. Poof! Here's your man! What would that business be called?
