What happens next is the question I
sometimes ask myself while writing fiction.
Discovering the answer can be surprising. That’s one of the joys of writing.
Now what happened next after my post of
enthusiasm deficit is not fiction but still quite surprising.
I was in a slump but I did what I could to
take stock with my ‘model the master story tellers’ project and distill a new
technique to go forward. It was coming
together but I still felt like I needed more time to read and think. Then a random, small item about the moon
surfaced in my reading. It named eight
phases of the lunar orbit and coupled those with eight directives, not unlike
horoscope capsule advice in nature. With
nothing better to think about I found that the moon was at the time in the
Gibbous phase and to my surprise, I was 100% following the directives
listed.
GIBBOUS – analysis to determine what is
needed in order to advance, attention to technique.
And the full moon which follows the Gibbous
phase has been assigned this directive.
FULL - receptivity, the need to be flexible
and fulfill the structural patterns laid down in the previous phase, the form
giving way to content.
Sometimes my vague sense of direction is
given words and wings but did the Gibbous moon have anything to do with
it? Hmmm.
