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by C. Bailey Sims
 Title: Candlewax
About The Book: 384 pages
Expected publication: April 3rd 2012
Published by: Terabyte Press
A medieval masterpiece of adventure, romance and horror, younger readers of Paolini and Cashore will gobble up this award-winning debut.
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Writing and Inspiration by C. Bailey Sims
Writing sometimes starts with a tingle. Not a real tingle, an imaginary tingle--one that brushes your intuition with an ostrich feather. This goes on for a little while, threads of storyline weaving together, coming apart, and weaving together again. It’s all very amorphous at this point. After a while the tin-gle becomes a soft hum in your heart, kind of like the ringing in your ears. You can still tune it out if you really try. Then it changes to a thump on the noggin and a pesky goblin voice whispering “Get to work.” If I continue to ignore this particular goblin, he starts playing with matches. Smoke starts to come out of my fingertips and I long to dip them in the cool water of my keyboard and assuage the burning sensation of a story unfulfilled. Sometimes writing starts with the decision to write. It’s a conscious effort, like getting on a treadmill to keep in shape only you’re going to be exercising mental muscles. Butt in chair. Candles lit. Music on. Magic Laptop in lap. At least a half hour of free time, with an option for more. Tap, tap, tap until there is some work done. This kind of writing doesn’t depend on a muse. You basically clap the muse into hand cuffs and blow smoke rings in his face. (I don’t smoke, but I do love that imagery!) And then there are the “Leaps and Bounds” of writing. I love these. Here's what happens. I procrastinate, get busy doing other things and then suddenly the clouds part and rays of light beam down on a character, a scene, a chapter, a whole book. (Actually I’m still waiting for the whole book thing—no Stephenie Meyer dream or J. K. Rowling seven-book-story-arc-epiphany yet). With “Leaps and Bounds” you see everything in perfect clarity and race to put it all down before the rain comes. You work through dinner. You work through the night. So exciting is this state of mind, that you are engulfed in the mental world. Some part of you knows you are working, but it’s so darn fun that you become entranced. The only thing that can tear me away is scrounging for pistachio nuts or getting a cup of tea, or taking a potty break. “Leaps and bounds” launch you into the story like nothing else. The chapter in Candlewax entitled “Duray Principas” was written in one sitting, followed later by the mop-up crew: Re-Write and Polish. It is still one of my favorite chapters in the book. “Square Face’s Princess” was written like that too. It was especially interesting that I wrote “Square Face’s Princess” way ahead of the connecting chapters. Don’t wait. While it’s clear in your head, put it down in writing. Re-Write and Polish will be standing in the wings if you need them.
Writing sometimes starts with a tingle. Not a real tingle, an imaginary tingle--one that brushes your intuition with an ostrich feather. This goes on for a little while, threads of storyline weaving together, coming apart, and weaving together again. It’s all very amorphous at this point. After a while the tin-gle becomes a soft hum in your heart, kind of like the ringing in your ears. You can still tune it out if you really try. Then it changes to a thump on the noggin and a pesky goblin voice whispering “Get to work.” If I continue to ignore this particular goblin, he starts playing with matches. Smoke starts to come out of my fingertips and I long to dip them in the cool water of my keyboard and assuage the burning sensation of a story unfulfilled. Sometimes writing starts with the decision to write. It’s a conscious effort, like getting on a treadmill to keep in shape only you’re going to be exercising mental muscles. Butt in chair. Candles lit. Music on. Magic Laptop in lap. At least a half hour of free time, with an option for more. Tap, tap, tap until there is some work done. This kind of writing doesn’t depend on a muse. You basically clap the muse into hand cuffs and blow smoke rings in his face. (I don’t smoke, but I do love that imagery!) And then there are the “Leaps and Bounds” of writing. I love these. Here's what happens. I procrastinate, get busy doing other things and then suddenly the clouds part and rays of light beam down on a character, a scene, a chapter, a whole book. (Actually I’m still waiting for the whole book thing—no Stephenie Meyer dream or J. K. Rowling seven-book-story-arc-epiphany yet). With “Leaps and Bounds” you see everything in perfect clarity and race to put it all down before the rain comes. You work through dinner. You work through the night. So exciting is this state of mind, that you are engulfed in the mental world. Some part of you knows you are working, but it’s so darn fun that you become entranced. The only thing that can tear me away is scrounging for pistachio nuts or getting a cup of tea, or taking a potty break. “Leaps and bounds” launch you into the story like nothing else. The chapter in Candlewax entitled “Duray Principas” was written in one sitting, followed later by the mop-up crew: Re-Write and Polish. It is still one of my favorite chapters in the book. “Square Face’s Princess” was written like that too. It was especially interesting that I wrote “Square Face’s Princess” way ahead of the connecting chapters. Don’t wait. While it’s clear in your head, put it down in writing. Re-Write and Polish will be standing in the wings if you need them.
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