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Date Posted: 13:33:03 05/05/11 Thu
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celtgirl
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It�s funny how you can work on something for such a long time and not really realize what it is you are actually writing. From the start of this book I�ve been fascinated by fairy tales- not just the surface tale but the underlying archetypes. I just wrote with a very winding structure in mind, two ribbons that ran parallel and only touched once. Now that I�m coming close to the end of this book, I realize all the fairytale elements that I built in, unconsciously for the most part. Which is the beauty of writing, you never know where the journey will take you, and often you think you�re just having a leisurely amble through the woods and it takes you somewhere totally unexpected. Though perhaps with the settings of Ireland and Russia, I should have expected a fairytale to naturally arise from such a meeting.

It�s only a fairy tale in the sense of motifs and the fact that I�ve woven a fairy tale, written by Jamie, throughout it, running parallel in many senses to the �real� storyline.

Though that being said, there is a crone in a wee cottage in the woods, there�s a bird that rises from the ashes, there are dark figures that come and go, there are many edge places in this story, where it�s hard to know which world is real and which is not. Or maybe they are all real in their own way. There�s a woodsman and abandoned children, a wily spider and enchanted trees that guard the borders of reality and fantasy.

The other major motif that kept recurring, outside of angels, is painting, somehow the metaphors kept going back to canvases and oil paints and colour. I suppose the whole thing is like a tapestry, with all the vivid threads and the dark ones too making up the final picture.

I am trying to be forgiving of myself with how long this book has taken, realizing only of late that this book is somewhat more complex in its structure than anything I have attempted before and that I am weaving more than just two ribbons together, unlike what I originally thought. All that being said, I think I am getting close to the finish line here. There are days when the writing just seems to wring my brain out, and leave me feeling uninspired and it takes a couple of days to recoup my imaginative powers, but the book is forming part by part here, and actually becoming a book, not merely a collection of pieces, which was what it was for a very long time.

Tracy is very kindly editing this book for me, for which services I can never hope to repay her properly- and she seems to think it�s a pretty decent book, so far. :) So I have hope it will not be as bad as I always fear my books will turn out. And yes, I always hate my books when I�m at this point in the writing, I don�t know why, I just do. I think it might be the difference between what I imagined it would be, when I first started writing it and doing all the research, and what it actually ends up being. You mourn the vision you did not manage to get down on the page, while slowly coming to accept what did make it to the page. Hopefully, when it's all said and done, the readers will like what did make it to the page.

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