A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-One-Hundred-And-Twenty-One

Though I have been focusing on other projects, I am still finding myself thinking a great deal about a new, larger writing project.  I think that I might be coming to understand it better, at least on the deep level that lies beneath the story itself.  I have a lot of ideas that are starting to fold together around the story, not specifics yet, but the underpinnings that help me to get a clearer sense of how to guide the work.  I am starting to think about how it might be structured in a way that allows the central story to include other stories within it, and the general sense of the journey that the central character is going to encounter.  Certain themes and ideas are also becoming clear to me, and I am getting glimpses of more specifics, but they come through in small glimpses right now.  It is a strange thing, but at times, I will have a strong sense of the work, with specifics seeming to be clear, but that only lasts a moment or so and I have only a general sense of it afterwards.  I am not good at really getting a piece of writing organized in a traditional way, using outlines and such, but I do like to get a sense of it inside my mind.  I've heard people who sculpt or create other kinds of three dimensional work discussing the sense that they need to get the whole of the object into their minds, in a sense, so that they can be aware of it on, can see all the relationships and understand the whole of what they are seeking to craft.  In a similar way, I am working on getting that global sense of the piece.  Once I have a sense of it on that level, I can try to get down to the finer scale at which the work is actually written.  The writing is a way to bring that idea into a form where it can be shared, refining it into language, and I find it much easier to do this, especially when working on a larger canvas, if their is a strong sense of the rest in mind already.  I'm glad to have a sense that this new idea is taking shape on that level.