The glow of a new story

If you’re a writer, you know how exciting it is to get what you feel is a great story idea and stand on the precipice of starting to write that new story. I’ve done several days worth of plotting and character brainstorming on a new young adult story idea, and I’m ready to start putting some scenes down on paper (well, the computer screen, but you know what I mean). I think I’ll shoot for 5 pages tomorrow, then go back and read them — see if they hold up to what I have in my head, see if they knock loose some more brainstorming ideas to add to my list of things that need to happen in this book.

My hope is this book can be a follow-up to the young adult manuscript that is making the rounds now and that is a finalist in the Golden Heart. I had to think a good long while to come up with what I thought was a strong idea that had the same type of tone as the completed book. Sometimes getting it all straight in your head before you start writing is half the battle.

Well, the dear hubby is likely going to roll his eyes when he sees this–hee hee–but I’m going to post the occasional picture of good-looking guys because, frankly, blog readers seem to like them. First up is David Wenham, an Australian actor who played Faramir in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. For those of you who’ve read Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander books, doesn’t he look like he’d make a good Jamie Frasier if they ever made a movie?

Here he is with Sean Bean (not bad himself) as brothers Faramir and Boromir in the LOTR: The Two Towers.

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