Friday, June 27, 2008

Fuzziness and the Novel

Things in life lately have been going real well. My regimen of Lexapro is interesting to say the least. For one, I conitnually feel different. I wonder if the feeling will become permanent? In some ways, I'm worried that by feeling so differently that I'm losing some aspects of my personality. I haven't been depressed, but I find myself pretty lethargic and my thoughts don't come as quick anymore. If anything, it could put a damper on creative energies that I used to have come so easily.

The feeling is much different than the feelings of going on estrogen the first time. Estrogen never felt different, it's just that the effects of it were different. I've loved everything that estrogen has helped with over the years. Since going on the injectible form, the changes were much more pronounced.

Lately, I've been working hard on my book's outline. The story has to be mostly re-written, but it's going to be so much for the better. There are a lot of twists and turns that should make the novel quite memorable. I've also done a large revamp of the history and language of my place which will be essential to making the world "come alive". It was really neat to come up with events that might happen to a medieval society over 700 or so years and create various rulers and what happened during their reign--from plagues to floods, to desertification and mining issues, to various games and pasttimes people would have. It's really exciting building this.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Don't worry about your creativity, Colleeny! From everything you have told me your creative energies are just more focused. Rather than being kinetic and scattershot, you are able to zero in your thoughts and energies in specific areas (like history, society, etc in dealing with your novel)- and you are coming up with wonderful, compelling, and brilliant ideas!

I am now, and as always, so proud of you, beautiful angel! So proud, so amazed, so in awe!