On Plotting

[Rachel Green]

My husband objected to the post-it notes. It wasn’t the impact to the environment (I used eco-friendly ones at almost four times the price), nor the nails banged in the wall to run strings across to represent plot and sub plots (we could hang pictures off them afterwards) but the sheer size of it. An average 100K novel would run to fifty or sixty chapters, each containing between one and twelve post-its. ‘This has to stop,’ he said. ‘I can’t bear to look at the mess.’ This is why I now write in the spare bedroom, with the door closed.

[Rachel Green]

What a fabulous gift, Kate. Thanks for reading and commenting.

[Rachel Green]

I think we all need a place to escape to. I'd use a potting shed if it was warm enough and had power.

[TooraLee]

Oh, this is good. I can just pictiue the scene and almost hear it in my own house! Our husbands would get along well. I was thinking a yurt in the backyard would be good! But I like your idea of a gypsy caravan - it reminds me of Toad's desire to take off in Wind in the Willows.

[Cita]

Wonderful.... and I once had a little trailer in which to write and it was all mine. Now I have my own office, but I have yet to make it all mine... so careful to not leave a very big footprint in his life in case I needs flee. Good job!

[Rachel Green]

Sister, I know exactly how you feel. I want to build a small cob-house in the garden for the same reason.

[Sister Two Moons]

Rachel,

This reminds me of my own plight. I have begged my carpenter husband to build me a gypsy wagon, overlooking the river and on the vacant lot next to our house. I really have no space in which to create here in this house, no room to run away to, no quietude to retreat within.

Of course, the wagon will have to be "electrified" but I have already ( in my mind's eye ) painted, decorated, and situated everything needful for the gypsy retreat.

When it's built "nobody will get in to see the wizard, not nobody!"

Sister Two Moons