Monday, November 6, 2017

You are the author by Michael Gonzales



Halloween is behind us, Thanksgiving is directly ahead, and Christmas, wonderful Christmas, is soon to follow.

But then…then comes the specter of the new year. Looking back at 2017, with all of its ups and downs, its good, and its bad, is, nevertheless, somewhat comforting because we know how it turned out.

2018, on the other hand, is the great unknown. It is the blank page faced by the writer.

Remember…the page does not write the story, the story teller does.
What will you write onto the yet empty pages of the coming year? Will it be a comedy, a tragedy? Whatever happens it won’t be fiction, even if you're abducted by Gabernites from the planet…ah…Gab, if it actually happens to you…then it ain’t fiction.



Perhaps you’ll come into vast wealth? Discover a pirate treasure, the lost gold of the Inca, or win Publishers Clearing House!

You might just live an action adventure, visit strange places, and distant lands.

This next orbital rotation just might be your year for romance.

Just remember, you must be the writer, the captain of your ship, the commander of your fate (where have I read that?).


As the writer sits before the blank page, or the blank monitor, he or she has a concept in mind, perhaps the story is all sketched out and the plot solidified. However, as the story unfolds the writer is bombarded with new ideas and concepts. Outside influences will act upon his mind, and the story will morph.

When finished, the author may not have the story the author intended, not at all, but as the author reads the finished work she may find she is not at all displeased with the story.

This then is the ultimate goal, to be pleased with your story. For unlike the pages in the writer’s computer that allows her to edit, even re-write whole chapters at a time, the pages of a new year are indelible, each is a chapter of our life’s book, that in the end, we, the author, must find to have been fulfilling.


And, oh…there is only one reviewer whose opinion counts.



  

Read books I and II of The Unborn Galaxy -- before the release of book III, Across a Sea of Stars.

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2 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 9, 2017 at 10:51 AM

    I like what you said about the morphing story. I'm a planner and generally work out the plot on a white board and paper before beginning. But something happens in the creative process and the story evolves in the writing and subsequent thinking. New ideas springing from writing are welcome and valued.

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    1. Michael E. Gonzales, FictionistNovember 11, 2017 at 5:18 PM

      Absolutely. I have started stories that began as one thing, and ended as something completely different. And I was still pleased with the end result.
      This allowed me to go back to the original idea, alter it a tad, and write that story as well.
      Funny how the muse can take control of even the best laid plans, eh?

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