pens – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:56:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg pens – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Creativity and Me https://shepline.com/2018/01/02/just-working-my-way-through-some-fairy-spells-as-you-do-on-tuesday-night-amwriting-thenovel-mrtumnal-theimaginarywife/ https://shepline.com/2018/01/02/just-working-my-way-through-some-fairy-spells-as-you-do-on-tuesday-night-amwriting-thenovel-mrtumnal-theimaginarywife/#respond Tue, 02 Jan 2018 22:53:22 +0000 http://shepline.com/2018/01/02/just-working-my-way-through-some-fairy-spells-as-you-do-on-tuesday-night-amwriting-thenovel-mrtumnal-theimaginarywife/ I’ve reached the point in my novel where the story is reaching it’s conclusion, and the Fairy Queen must be reborn and thus I must dovetail my writing with revision of the ballads of Tam Lin and Thomas The Rhymer – the major source material for the Mr Tumnal trilogy of stories. A slice of Christmas Cake and a cup of tea beside the tree and the pretend fire, and the inspiration starts to come. That’s the way that it works for me; an armchair, a couple of notebooks, and a couple of (different) fountain pens, with a Kindle on the side, and I am in the position to distill pages of creativity.

A couple of hours later, and I’ve written about five pages and a truly magical scene. I love it when that happens!

Just working my way through some #fairy #spells... as you do on Tuesday night. #amwriting #TheNovel #MrTumnal #TheImaginaryWife

Just working my way through some #fairy #spells… as you do on Tuesday night. #amwriting #TheNovel #MrTumnal #TheImaginaryWife

 

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