Irascible
What kind of word is that? When Dennis picked that for the word - the word we members of the Klamath River Writers Club would have to write something about - I didn't know what it meant. I had to go home and look it up on Dictionary.Com and later I looked it up at Visual Thesaurus which was a lot of fun, but nothing simple or simply irascible came to me for a writing project.Therefore I decided to write the story of an irascible man. Fiction. I created Irascible Ian, an actor, and my life hasn't been the same. I've had this elderly guy telling me about things that happened to him years ago - it is a real hoot. I'm writing this first-person so it is like I'm channeling this imaginary irascible character's comments. This is such a change from The Seagull Rebellion and the other children's writing I do. I've worked on the project for two days now and am glad I started early because so far it seems like a lot of what I've written will get edited out. Right now I'm just putting down Ian's thoughts as they occur to me. That's how I want to write it. Of course I have an idea where the plot is leading, but I'm letting my character show me the way.
The next writer's club meeting isn't for another 2 months so I have plenty of time to work on this.
I swear fiction writers may sound nuts to the rest of the world but we do understand each other. I feel this is something I prepared for all my life and now that it is happening I'm just so happy.
I worked more on The Seagull Rebellion again today and spent some time at the forums there at NaNoWriMo headquarters. I'll really miss them if they close down at the end of the month.
God Bless Chris Baty! LOL :)
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