I used to laugh when I watched movies that had authors writing in snowy or rainy backgrounds. I always wondered what it was about the weather that made authors want to enclose themselves with a glass of wine and start scribbling away. The most memorable scene out of a movie for me was "Misery". No, it wasn't watching Kathy Bate's psychotic tirade against poor James Caan's feet. It was watching James Caan's character sitting at his typewriter, with his bottle of champagne and cigarette on a dish, writing away the final book in the "Misery Series" that finally answered that question for me about two years ago.
The snow creates this atmosphere that for me shuts the world down. The only time that you could finally hear all those creative thoughts roaming in your head. In those precious moments of of creativity you don't want to loose a single one of them so you sit at your computer and just start pouring your heart out.
Even though my first manuscript hasn't been printed or picked up, I'm sitting here today with the snow falling quietly behind me and adding more words to my second manuscript. I was inspired about two months ago to start over and begin writing again. I'm so taken away by how much of a passion writing is for me. The moment something hits me or I'm inspired, I scribble it down on a paper or a pad I carry with me. Then when I'm at the computer the words just seem to flow right out of me. I admire writers of the past who had a quill and a thin sheet of parchment and wrote novels after novels because as much as I love writing, my computer is my best friend when it comes to writing things down.
Anyway, on to more writing....till then
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