A spark ignites an idea from an image, smell or sound
A few words grouped together gets a tale off the ground
A tale becomes a paragraph; a chapter; or a book
Possibly a trilogy (or more) with any luck.
The pen needs inspiration, to enable the tale to grow
And the balance of everything needs to be… well… just so
But when the idea isn’t there, the tale is hard to tell
And a book without a tale will not go down very well…
My Inner Writer, Tomliam Merriman, has been demanding a voice lately. Back in September, I announced I was writing a book, and set up a brand new blog under my then new nom de plume.
And that was all I did. The book never got started. The blog never got updated. And poor old T.L. languished about in the rather large void that is my mind. Hopefully looking for inspiration but failing to find the correct light switch.
Oh, he’s got company in there, so he’s not alone – there’s my Inner Zombie for one, and my Inner Woman, Thomasina, for another. There’s also the legacy of Bernard, my Inner Nagging Voice who I sent out into the far reaches of the Universe looking for broken pieces of needles in an endless number of haystacks. My Inner Leader of the Opposition makes an appearance occasionally for the odd political debate; my Inner Inventor throws random ideas into the mix, and my Inner Typist, Fingers, throws random letters into the text. And there are others, different inner aspects of me, who leap out without a moments notice, usually when they aren’t required. My Inner Confused self springs to mind quite a lot. He’s here now, actually… I’ve nicknamed him Tomfusion!
Tomliam Merriman moves them all to one side. He is focussed. Determined. And has one goal on his mind… to write that first book.
Unfortunately, being an aspect of my mind, Tomliam himself gets moved to one side as I have to deal with the things that happen in real life, such as working, sleeping, and lately, shovelling snow. And writing this blog – which too has been left on the shelf lately… it must be the weather.
I hope to be able to grant Tomliam’s wish and start his book. My book. I hope to be able to find the inspiration needed to get it started, the motivation to keep it going, the determination to see it through to the end, and the satisfaction of seeing it published.
I hope to be able to update Tomliam’s blog with news that the book is underway… and if not that blog, definitely this blog – the place where all my inner aspects come together under the header of the Five Mes.
I have a vivid imagination, I’m a dreamer, a thinker, a traveller, and I love to play with words. It may be a dream at the moment to be a writer, but it can be a reality. Dreams can come true.
I wonder, though, if this one will…
The Mansionic Perspective 
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