word counts

Posted on | June 23, 2010 | No Comments

These beginnings can be very, very creaky. I’ve written just over a thousand words in three days. Not much, but a start, as they say.

More importantly, I hope, the whole world I am trying to create is gradually taking shape inside my head. It feels almost like channelling, or something similar. Conjuring up these people and these places from the innermost depths. Dreaming it all into existence. So I’m going to try not to worry about how slow it seems, for the moment anyway.

I’m reading the folklorist Katharine Briggs’s seminal work ‘Fairies in Tradition and Literature.’ And a wonderful wonderful old-fashioned tome that I ordered through Amazon called ‘The Countryside Companion’, first published in the 1930′s.

Both have inspired me hugely. I don’t have time to do any separate research for this book, so I’m just having to do it in tandem. I think it’s going to work rather well.

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