Newford Stories
“It doesn’t happen often, but when it does it really does feel special. It’s when the song comes to you—melody and words all at once. When a story flows through you and you hardly need to change a word. Sometimes it’s a character who just steps into your head and everything about them has the weight of reality—you just know them.
But it only happens if you put the work in.
The original crow girls story was like that.
It dates back to a time when, every Christmas, I would write a story as a gift for my wife MaryAnn, but which we then sent out as a Christmas card in the form of a chapbook. While most stories I wrote were commissioned for various anthologies, the chapbooks had no preset length or theme. I just told whatever story I felt like writing.
So back in 1995 I opened a file and typed, “People have a funny way of remembering where they’ve been, who they were. Facts fall by the wayside.” And the rest of the story just flowed out of me without my having to do much more than get the w...ords on the screen.MoreLess
But it only happens if you put the work in.
The original crow girls story was like that.
It dates back to a time when, every Christmas, I would write a story as a gift for my wife MaryAnn, but which we then sent out as a Christmas card in the form of a chapbook. While most stories I wrote were commissioned for various anthologies, the chapbooks had no preset length or theme. I just told whatever story I felt like writing.
So back in 1995 I opened a file and typed, “People have a funny way of remembering where they’ve been, who they were. Facts fall by the wayside.” And the rest of the story just flowed out of me without my having to do much more than get the w...ords on the screen.MoreLess
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