Storing
away memories and odd events to add to a story gives that story realism. Anne
Rice once said, “No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in
time which time itself cannot erase.” And most of our memories are indeed gifts
that we open again and again.
I was at
an Evelyn Woods Speed Reading Class and the instructor said, “We are the sum of
all our experiences.” There it was a truth that stood above simple truths. As I
began to write I recognized that I had very limited experiences upon which to
pull. My early work was unquestionable shallow. So I began a quest to discover,
in the name of wanting to be a better writer? No! I realized I was shallow.
Every
submission sent to publishers was returned or ignored. I recall critique
suggesting I needed more depth in both the way I dealt with the subject and the
technical writing style. As time ate at my life I waited as I worked. Wrote
daily. How much life is lost to wait? That is an apt question, but my wait was
filled with discovery. I became a student of people. Discovery. Examined other
styles and broke them down mechanically and technically. Discovery. Tried to
create more complexity. Discovery. Expanded my vocabulary. Discovery. Read…
read… read. Discovery. Wrote… re-wrote… re-re-wrote.
That
wait was not shallow but an aggressive tutorial for my growth. I continued to
submit work. And slowly pieces were accepted.
So the
question is who am I? Angelica or Zi. Ironically, we took the same path and had
the same challenges and failures. We met as more mature adults prepared to be
writers and we have written daily as writing partners. We found a synergy in
our styles and complexity in what we wanted to create. Are we good? We don’t
know. Have we found that depth needed to portray characters as real people?
Hope we have. Have we found enough intrigue in our plot and our words to keep
readers interested? You tell us. As Jacob Bronowski, a mathematician,
well-spoken and a celebrity of the BBC show The Ascent of Man and was the
inspiration of Carl Sagan to make the Cosmos wrote, “The world is full of
people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at
the flower show.” If runners up is what we are, we’re proud for our journey has
been wonderful.
Zi
believes, “Be the best you can be by growing every day.”
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