I stare.
I sigh.
I pick up my glass of iced tea and swallow.
Twice.
My hips twist as I sit in the chair, the one in front of the computer.
The computer where I’m typing the new chapter.
The new chapter where my character Gregory gets caught in a web of…
Damn, I don’t know what. But I know I’m caught in my own web of dis-connect. I need to connect the words and lines and sentences and paragraphs of this story link.
My head snaps up to the artwork hanging on the right hand wall of my home office. The wall that’s three feet away from me and my computer and my non-webbed writing.
The Holy Palace web – that’s what I need.
My eyes light on the twists and turns of the reds, yellows, purples, greens, blues, oranges of the Kabbalah design.
Holy Palace, David Friedman
A genius drew this design. A spiritual genius who works in a tiny room down a narrow alley in a small Israeli village.
He’s famously unknown except by those who have been caught into his spiritual universal drawings of webbed, interconnecting colorful lines.
Lines that mesmerize the mind toward the inward, then the outward, as we all seek the idea of infinity.
Aha! Gregory is in a web of his own deceit. His secrets have dug him into a hole of discontent.
Now, he needs to open and rejoin the lines of friendship and loves, of truth and dare.
I thank the painting hanging on my writing wall, and I begin to click the keys on my keyboard.
My writing web is growing….
Gregory’s first adventures are found in my book THE RIGHT WRONG MAN, in which he disappears. The sequel I’m working on now follows him…more forthcoming as my webbed writing continues and his story unfolds…
roughwighting 
…oh what tangled web we weave, etc… but, whatever gets the job done, m’Lady, Pamela :):) LUVZYA!
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Weaving and Writing combine to make a good wead. I mean, read. 🙂
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Aha, so if Gregory has dug himself into a hole of his own deceit then I hope you’ve just been handed the spade with which he can extricate himself. Our characters only make life harder for us when they start fooling themselves.
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
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A writing spade – great metaphor, David! I’m digging deep and dark right now. xoxonehugxoxo
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Sounds hard.
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As journalist Red Smith said about writing:“You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.”
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Writing sounds like so much fun. 🙂
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We all need something in our writing cave we can focus on to give us new direction, whether it be a window, a picture, a quote. Looks like you have yours in that lovely artwork.
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Yes I do, Carrie, although looking out the window helps too at times! The more I weave the webbed writing, the more I can get into, perhaps, a Deep Genre, yes?
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Ha, yes, for sure!
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I always find writers’ process fascinating. You described yours well. Love the photos, too! 🙂
I’ll be looking for that print….
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Writing creatively IS a process, just as you say. Just like making a great meal from scratch, wouldn’t you say?
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Agreed. Cooking is also process — but I find the writing process more mysterious, and therefore more interesting to talk about.
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I have always thought that our creative muses would prefer to be courted rather than confronted. It’s when I release any semblance of control and just offer myself up at her mercy that she blesses me with a plethora of wonderful ideas 😉 Congrats Pamela and best wishes for you – and Gregory 🙂
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Oh, I like the way you say that. Yes, we should always court our muse, never attempt to badger or corrupt her.
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Love this, Pam! I’m reading Anne Lamott’s BIRD ON BIRD and she describes similar convoluted creativity at work in her writing process. Kudos to you for keeping yourself open to the elusive threads weaving their way to your story.
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Sometimes I feel like I’m just plucking at those threads and hoping it all doesn’t unravel! But weave away, I continue…
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Love that painting, Pamela. Shapes and color do loosen the mind. Bravo, you have such a fantastic painting to get you out of a corner, or web, or buried underground. Bravo 😀
I’m stuck in a web right now and can shake loose, but it will come as soon as I stop thinking about it.
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Our webbed writing can cause a jumbled web within our minds, I know. Sometimes I think of it as a necklace that’s gotten all knotted. Working out the knot slowly, painstakingly, is like working out that novel. Enjoy your summer break, and I hope all of your necklaces get straightened out.
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Love that print! My point of focus is usually the tops of the trees that I can see out of the windows in my loft. Ever changing.
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I have similar scenery out my window also. I’ll wave early in the morning when I’m writing – see if you can catch the hello, and send it back.
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It’s lovely to have something intricate to focus on while you’re writing (actually – when you’re THINKING about writing which something I do a lot) 😉
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Oh yes, no webbing without thinking. I know, though, that the less I think, the better my writing. Go figure.
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I so admire how you write and seem to never have much of a problem creating a post for your blog or for you novels. Pure genius. And I really like the picture that gave you inspiration. Another genius!
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THANK YOU so much for that encouragement. When I really just ‘let go’ of my mind and allow the web of creativity to enter my fingers at the keyboard, I have no shortage of words or stories. Ever. My saving grace! 🙂
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Very intriguing!
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Intriguing as a spider web. 🙂
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I also admire the way you write and your wonderful ideas for your posts. They are genius, entertaining, thought provoking and fun. Thank you and hugs.
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Thank YOU! I admit I never know what I will come up with each week. That’s either a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s always a lot of fun.
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Glad the web you’re weaving is coming together with the help of your art. I can struggle and struggle at times. Other times the writing just comes. As you noted, I think letting go helps. Thanks for sharing your writerly web. 🙂
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The struggle is never enjoyable, yet sometimes some surprising writing occurs from (after) the struggle.
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Are you stuck? Have you thought about adding a hurricane, tornado, flood, earthquake? 🙂
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Or, all of the above? :-). 🙂
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I love that- how your writing process got kicked into gear by allowing yourself to tune in for a moment in other ways beyond the actual act of writing. I find I get some of my best ideas while walking down grocery store aisles. The creative process is always in process in my experience.
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Now THAT is creative – coming up with writing ideas in a grocery story. I think I’ll try that today and see if anything good comes forward for Gregory…
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Something about the physical movement. I get great ideas when I am working out too where I am moving my body
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
OH WHAT A WASSKLY WEB WE WEAVE???? 🙂
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Thanks for the reblog Jonathan. Wasskly Web windeed…
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I hear that the art in your office is incredible! 😉
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Brilliant drawing on my writing right, brilliant doodle on my writing left.
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I dance around writing so much these days I should call it cardio 🙂
I think I need a writing group if I’m ever going to get back to fiction.
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Ah, love that image of writing cardio. Yes, I teach a creative writing class, which helps me write regularly, even if I avoid my characters too often…! :-0
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Now what will happen to Gregory? 🙂 oh yes, the book!
Pretty nice photo to gaze at and think about – and then find yourself able to come back to Gregory, refreshed.
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I’m waiting waiting waiting for Gregory to inspire me. Hmmm, maybe I’m looking at the picture a bit TOO long. 🙂 Better close my eyes and just type. He’s in the middle now of trying to figure out if he’s in love. ❤
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It’s great when it all begins to come together, but what a good tool to use to refresh the connections in your mind 🙂
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I liked your beautiful and intricate designed art, Pam. It is great how it inspired you.
When I go out and about my small town or at work, short essays pop into my mind. Thank you for liking my loosely written poetry style, Pam. I wrote a murder mystery book but it is on paper and never made it to the fine tuning level. (Someday when life is not so busy, i tell myself 🙂
My interest is someday to get my children’s books with watercolor drawings put into the world. I have 4 completed (sent out in those SASE’s in late 90’s) but have used them as little stapled pamphlets in church, 4 H club and a battered shelter. I am inspired by your success and follow-up persistence, Pam!
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