Today's Open On Sunday challenge is books, any context. Here's my first one:
The Secret Garden
In her mind, poor fragmented missing thing, she is a child, but not the child she was.
Instead, her name is Mary, and she lived a long time ago. She lives with a distant, unhappy uncle in an enormous house in Yorkshire. Somewhere in the house, her spoiled frightened cousin Colin keeps to his bed, crying in the night.
In her mind, they find the door to a secret garden, and bring it to life, and the shuttered dead house comes to life with it.
Outside her mind, Willow cries over her, and swears to get her back from Glory.
Oh, dear. I have literally no clue where that one came from. It was one of the books that was read to me rather a lot when I was a child, sick in bed - but rather nice, I think, imagining that poor fuddled Tara was having a lovely wander with Dickon, feeding the robin, and not screaming hopelessly for Willow.
I love it Fay! But damn you for making me miss Firefly even more.
Wow, Fay, that was very good.
I come here for help. I have a plotline in my mind, for a fic I want to write. But I've never written fic before. How do you guys recommend I start? Should I just start writing, from the beginning, and go until I'm done? Or should I plan breaks before I begin? Should I start with characterizations, thoughts, putting my mind into the mind of my subjects?
Basically, I'm wanting of help. =)
Just see what comes out,NC. Although I'm new to it as well.
(blinking)
Nova, not sure if it's you or me, but it's coming up on my machine (chapter one) as incredibly horizontal: a very looooong line that goes well beyond the width of my screen. I'm assuming it's a browser issue.
One thing jumped out, a typo you might want to fix pronto:
She fell prostate, sobbing,
ProstRATE. Not prostate.
Will try this again, and see if I can get the text to wrap.
edit: nope, I give up. It appears that my browser is reading this as a single long line that stretches on forever.
Formatting suggestions? I'd like to read it, but can't, not set up this way.
Wow, thanks Deb. Amazingly, I had prostrate first and "corrected" it backwards.
I'll see if I can't hard wrap the chapter for you, most browsers would wrap it but if it doesn't...
ETA: fixed it. It should be more readable now. Sorry 'bout that.
