Writing truths

The writing of the three books I'm working on is going slower than I expected due to the fine weather and spending more time walking on the beach but hopefully the writing will pick-up soon.
I find myself sitting here looking at whatever passage is on the screen and getting up to correct something or add something and even when I turn the monitor off I'm thinking about the lines.

19/08/2012

I've spent most of the day trying to see how Galen (The Women In Love Series) is going to start manipulating Dominique's novel (I Will Stand Alone) if it's being written in 2007 and Galen is in Paris in 1920.
I've also been writing about Matt (A Death In Paris) trying to figure out why Arlette's sister, Dominique, wasn't being protected when she was murdered. Was she with someone her watchers knew and thought was safe?
If so what was she doing making a report to her office when she was killed?

I don't want to finish Will I Dream? because when I do the series will be finished and I have a hard time thinking about letting it go. The whole thing with characters in the novels becoming real and influencing everything that goes on is something I find hard to let go of. Maybe I'll work it out in this book.

It's very hot during the day so we are going to the beach for our walk around seven at night. Watching the Herons in the evening is different and the gulls are more interested in what people leave behind on the sand than in playing.
Working on A DEATH IN PARIS and WILL I DREAM? Leaving the GARDEN until I'm finished these books. Matt and Catherine-Elizabeth are waiting for some ex-KGB to help protect them and to collect whatever they need as evidence, and to bring in a deputy minister for questioning.
Two teams are in Geneva looking for Arlette. Will she be alive?
In the last book of the Women In Love series Galen is a mother of two girls now and has left them with their nanny to return to Paris in 1920. The DADA movement has reached the cafe's and bars and Galen thinks its rubbish but she agrees with 'no rules'.
She's a complex character and she knows she's not easy but motherhood is making her feel a little more settled. In five years she'll be interfearing in everyone's life and both her daughters will be involved in the story.
God I love writing.

The three books I'm writing are totally different or I wouldn't be able to write them at the same time. A Death In Paris is going to involve searching for Arlette Puncarde in Geneva and Matt is going to enlist the help of a Russian friend from the cold war days. He's told Segolene and Jane that the friend has useful contacts who are retired Army officers. But they're really retired KGB who haven't gone over to the mafia.
Will I Dream is getting interesting. Galen has delivered her baby, except there are two babies, both girls.
One she calls Cloe the other she calls Christina. Both are going to play major roles in the lives of Brett Ashley, aka Dominique.Especially Christina.
The third book is The Garden, a fictional account of Eden.

Valentines day eve

Yesterdays NYT had an article about women becoming more educated and how that affects men's impression of them. Some of the quotes from the past are outrageous but understandable (Mona Lisa Smile).
Look at it, it's really a hoot.

TODAY

Today is the first day of the rest of your life what will you do with it?
Dreamed that we moved to the Oregon coast, in summer of course, to be near the Sea. Down near Seaside or Lincoln City.
There was a huge stone fireplace and built in bookshelves. Loved the view and especially the sunrises and sunsets.;

Editing poetry

I have been busy trying to edit the poems from the 1972 book. Adding prose to go with the poems and telling myself  I'm looking at my alter-ego. I was intent on going beyond DH Lawrence but it's more like feminist poetry of the day???
Will keep at it. Canada needs a poet to celebrate.

New Book

Yesterday I went out to UBC to get a copy of a book of poetry I wrote in the late '60's and that was published in 1972. It was like reading my own history and the history of a time long gone. Very interesting.
Now I will write out the original followed by the edited version with prose additions and the new, updatede, version and I'll send the whole thing to a Canadian publisher. First though I will be looking for a Canadian Agent to handle my work. Will submit a request to the Canada Council as well.

The New Year

A screenplay, three new novels, a continuing story. I greet the new year as an author and writer and a man hungry for new work, new tensions, new understandings but mostly a new sense of crossing the threshold to experience life with anticetipation.
I greet the new year as a non-smoker (and having written it I am therefore committed to it.) learning to taste all over  again and looking forward to new travel, reading, conversation and fantasies.
Rescuing a book of poetry I wrote in the late '60's and re-writing some of it, adding prose to some of it, and generally re-visiting the ghosts.

                                 original work -- edits with prose -- new work


We'll see.
The screenplay is only 400 + pages, too short??