Road Trip Wednesday is a weekly blog carnival hosted by YA Highway. This week's topic is: Inspired by Stephanie Perkins' post on Natalie Whipple's blog, what is your novel's "Love List"?
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First, a definition from Stephanie's post:
Whenever I begin a new project, I also begin a list called “What I Love About This Story.” I start by writing down those first ideas that sparked the fires of my mind, and then I add more ideas to it as I discover them during my push through early drafts.
I love this idea. I haven't started writing my WIP, but I think creating a love list is a great way to plan. What wonderful things do I hope this story will contain? Here's what I have so far:
damp pine forest (scent)
Museum of Natural History
history
mystery
a curious girl
botanists
UWS brownstones
salty island air
longing
muddy shoes and grass stains
old rowboats
actors and re-enactors
slow friendships
What things do you love about your WIP? Or what would you love to write about in a future project?
16 comments:
the damp pine forest scent, muddy shoes and grass stains, re-enactors! I love everything about this already.
Love the sensory details in this list! Sounds like you've got something special here!
Such a great list, Rebecca! I love everything on it, but especially: muddy shoes and grass stains, damp pine forest scent, and a curious girl. :)
Great atmosphere already...I'm with Jaime on the muddy shoes and grass stains
Sounds woodsy. Love it. Especially "muddy shoes and grass stains."
Museum of Natural History, history, mystery, a curious girl... I like the sound of this already! =D
I am smelling this story and I´m loving it :D Plus it´s also very visual! Sounds great!
Please start writing this immediately. I can SMELL the damp pine and the muddy shoes, the salty air. I can feel the soft, worn wood of the rowboat.
I love that your list includes so many of the senses. I'm always thinking about how things smell (ugh, the downfall of a sensitive nose considering most things smell gross) so I love that you included the pine scent, muddy shoes, grass stains, and salty air. I can already imagine the environment of your story.
Interesting that you included "longing"--a feeling in the midst of a list of sights, smells, and tangible things. It helps conjure up a vivid impression of your WIP-to-be. :)
Longing. UWS Brownstones. Salty sea air. I'm interested.
Sounds beautiful and very literary, Rebecca. I'd buy it based on those words alone.
slow friendships - I REALLY like that one. And anything that has the Museum of Natural History? I am SOLD. Great list, Rebecca!
For the SNI that's simmering to a boil - theater. LOTS of theater. :)
I love how visual your list comes together in my head! Especially the salty island air - I'd be game to read, for sure!
I love the muddy shoes and grass stains imagery. I have a long (at least one page by now) list of things I want to include in a book or books, some that are generic settings, some ridiculously specific, character traits, images, atmosphere... Lots of snippets, but no plot! Doh.
Thanks everyone! This is making me all the more motivated to get writing.
(@Sophia: I struggle with the atmosphere sans plot problem ALL THE TIME. Seriously)
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