Thank You Raymond E Feist!

I was reading Raymond E Feist’s post on Facebook a few days ago where he discussed how he came up with Magician. To cut a long story short, his idea for the story changed a great deal from his original. He let it be shaped and moulded by the world around him and his interactions with others and this gave me such a great sense of relief.

That those ideas we have can change. That they aren’t rigid and that even he threw out great chunks of work and rewrote them. This gave me hope that perhaps I can do the same. I have been struggling with the reworking of a story I wrote when I was a teenager, feeling like it was an up hill struggle to tread that old ground, like I was being overly critical about my work (like so many other writers). Wondering whether I was doing the right thing to even touch it.

But his words gave me the courage to try. So I have dusted it off (again) and the prologue is written. All I need to do now is focus on the rest and not be scared of altering it. There is something drawing me to do it, so I should listen to that inner voice and run with it.

He also gave me a wonderful tip how he used news items and people around him to come up with characters and today I found myself looking at the world around me with a writer’s eyes. So thank you Raymond for your words of inspiration that gave this amateur writer new hope for her own writing and finally allowed me to open my eyes.