Hello, friends! :)) How are things going? My current mission in Thailand has been to collect as many notebooks as possible, and I am glad to say that it is going well! ^^ I have been here for… well, I’ve no idea how long I’ve been here (I am horrible at keeping track of time). I assume it’s been around a week to 10 days? And in all that time, I have gotten four more gorgeous notebooks and also a notebook for composing music, which I’ve no idea how to use but got simply because I someday hope to learn how to read sheet music and actually use that notebook!
And to be honest, while I think I have found a new WIP (which I’m not telling y’all anything about except one clue: watches), there really just has been something else on my mind. Something that is just truly haunting me, creeping into my writing any time it can, and just refuses to leave me.
Island Keepers.
And why yes, I do indeed hear all the groans coming from you guys.
Why can’t I leave this poor story alone, you may ask?
There is one simple answer to that question. And that is that, this darn story just point-blank, REFUSES to leave me alone!!!
No matter how hard I try to forget about it!!! It keeps knocking on my brain!!!!!! Demanding to be written! Demanding to be finished!
I put down this project a few months ago, and it really was very hard. And I truly do love this story and the world, but I just didn’t feel like I really could write it. I just felt very much at wall. Just plain stuck. And so I put it down.
It truly, truly is like living with an ever persistent ghost.
To be honest, this has never ever happened to me before. Yes, of course, all my stories do knock on my head and wish to be written. But they normally need knock only once or twice, then I write the idea down, then they sit patiently, waiting for their turn to be written. And sometimes, if a project doesn’t work, I set it aside for the time being, and the story typically understands and sits there, waiting for the right time when I can write it.
Island Keepers has not been that story.
I really do think the title “problem child” fits it ever so well now.
It keeps demanding to be written, and I really really do think it has wonderful, AMAZING potential, but…. :/
Suffice to say I’m not sure if I can write this. I want to. I don’t know how or if I even can, at the moment. But… to be honest, I think that if I were to write this… (I’m not saying I will, but maybe I could) I would definitely have to learn to let go of the story a bit. To trust it with all its wildness and unknown.
Which I suppose you do have to do with every story.
However, with Island Keepers, it has just been so so much harder. I don’t know why. Perhaps it’s because Island Keepers has caused so much chaos that I’m very much reluctant to trust it.
And to be honest, I really really do not know what to do. But I merely wanted to write this out and put this out there. And who knows? Perhaps there is some other writer out there who has been feeling the same way??? *feels as if it really would be great if I weren’t alone in this*
Do let me know down in the comments if you’ve ever had a project like this! And in the meantime, I’m going off to work on my new WIP and a Christmas short story and debating whether or not to work on Island Keepers for a tiny bit.
Till next time and wishing y’all a wonderful weekend,
-Isabelle
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