That is so wizard!

I've got all of today to write, and think about writing, and do some more reading about writing, and i'm glad for it.

Here's a breakdown of what i've achieved so far;

Firstly I set myself a ten minute limit to write down as many books as I could think of that have made an impression on me over the years. I'm less sure with each day that the whole Emily, the Faeries and the Gnomes story is really what I want to do. I wrote a list of books I like to help me form a better picture of what the hell it is I want to write about.

I read another chapter of Voglers book. This one expanded on the idea of the ordinary world and the placement of the hero within it. A lot of good stuff in this, I won't go into it now, i'll just wait for it to come out in the process of finding and planning my story.

I then started looking for some more stories on ficly.com to add onto but couldn't find anything that really jumped out. So I distracted myself by looking at another one of the writers resources i've mentioned in previous posts. It's a profile sheet for creating characters. Very useful stuff, I think this could be a great prompt for building a story from scratch by starting with characters that really appeal to you independent of any story line.

http://www.creative-writing-now.com/writing-character-profiles.html

I started tooling around creating a Wizard character for myself when it occurred to me to go back to ficly.com and start my own story thread based on this character. On ficly.com they have a challenge prompt if you're interested wherein they set a theme or an idea for you to base the start of your story on. I chose a romance prompt, which is not like me really, but I thought it suited my Wizard.

This is the story thread I started on the site;

Dr. Wz. Agrimon Crocumn would be his full title.

He had become a doctor first, as had been his families expectation, but once his studies had finished and he had found placement in a small village as a herbal practitioner, his first love for all things magic had returned to his thoughts, and try as he might he could not shake it’s grasp.

He knew his ambitions would be met with vague family disapproval, but for Dr. Crocumn it wasn’t a great stretch to go from being a local. H.P. to also being a Wizard. There was a great cross-over in knowledge of herbal remedies and ‘magic’ was really just as likely to cure as many ailments as ‘medicine’ despite the stigma attached.

The villages youngest witch, a Miss Primrose Wort, had certainly expressed much encouragement when Dr. Crocumn had told her of his plan. “That sounds delightful Croaky”, she had said, and she’d sounded like she really meant it too.

Dr. Crocumn had other dreams he wanted to tell Miss primrose of, dreams of him and her, but he struggled to do so.

I think for the rest of the day i'm just going to repeat the different activities i've done so far.