Brontë Novel Update : And now the typing

Patrick Brontë's birthplace

  So, as planned,I spent the summer amassing together what sections of my Brontë novel I have typed into the computer, order to produce a draft.Grand! But then I saw a difficulty; I have dozens and dozens of filled notebooks and untold number of notes yet to be typed into the computer. 
  
 Opps... How did I forget that reality??

laundry basket full 

An over stuffed bin

 

These are but the main deposits.
Every time I move something, or clean, I find more notebooks! 

Over the door storage

But wait, there's more!

I also have innumerable notes made on scraps of paper as the inspiration struck. Much as Emily would stop her house work in order to write a note with her pencil. One can't be so foolish as to say," I'll remember ". You won't. I always have a paper and pen with me. Besides the words itch to be written and you'll have no rest until they are! 

Just some of the notes

So much work is still ahead.


There is a lot reading I have deferred to the end. Well it's time to gather what I have to read and read it. How easy it is to say along the way, " Oh I'll do that later." Then later arrives!

I have also run into a substantial amount of new to me source material in my research that needs assessing and incorporation. The Brontë  fields  may have been mowed and  thoroughly gleaned again and again over the years, but the Nicholls, Bell and Adamson ones have not....and what is found there, sheds light on Arthur and consequently, the Brontës...at least the part of their story that I am portraying.

And new scenes are still coming in. Besides the main figures, others from the story are coming forth. People whose importance have been over looked imo, are having their say. It will be awhile yet until there is a completed draft....particularly since I type with one finger! lol However I figure if the author, Christy Brown, could  type with only his left foot, I can type with one finger.

 So I plug on.

One of the most interesting aspects of this gathering together of material has been to see , how often, over the years, I wrote the same scene,but used different words. However the most important words ( often, the dialogue) are the same. It's fun to take scenes written years apart and fit them together in their proper sequence. Many have expanded over time, to included their prequel or a sequel.

It will be 6 years in December since I started this novel . At this point, time is no longer worrying me. The writing is nearly done. What is left is the shaping...and that can take a good deal of time too. But I think time worries us most when we are unsure of a project's out come. Now I know if I just keep working, I'll get there. I already have.

Enjoy your Autumn!

Okay, back to work

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna
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