Wallering

The one thing I like big time about writing is wallering. Wallering is what ya do that most folks call research.

I hit the GOOGLE button and I’m in another world. A world of reality that feels like fantasy. I do a tremendous amount of wallering in roadmaps. The names of exotic towns around the world.

My book THE SEA CALLS had me having compute how long it would take for 40 foot sailing boat to get from one place to another. 40 footers are not fast. I was amazed to find some islands I never heard of, so I had to dig up info on them. Just for the fun.

Did you know that there are islands in the Pacific ocean that are so dry you would die in a few days unless you were stranded there during the rainy season. During the storm season the waves are so high you would drown in waves that put the surface of the isle 10 feet or better. Good luck with that.

Gotta run

Happy wallering

WS

Hi Ho Hi D Ho

Life sure does get in the way, but it can be fun. Working on a book. I have trashed more of it than I’ve kept. The ending evades me over and over again.

Now I know why the books say begin by writing the ending first and aim the book at that end.

I wonder if that would work with life. If we write the riding we want and then aim every action and decision toward that ending, how would that work. Aim at success as a writer. At a marriage. A career.

What do you think?

Decisions would be easier. No boredom, always a focus. Even failure would clear a new path to the same or slightly modified new end.

There would have to be a certain amount of flexibility, but even there it would just be a new route to the same end. If the road is blocked, choose another route to the same goal.

Just saying. I will be driving to a goal this week. The writing goals will be met in motels, under trees, and hiding in the garage. Praise the Lord for DELL.

Go write.

WS