Abbe’s Ruminations:  Storyboard of Crazy Thoughts

After releasing my new novel, The Underpainting, to the world ( yes, a bookstore in Germany bought it  as well as another one in England)  my mind is free to wander.

When I don’t have a plotline or clarity on my next book, I gather my crazy ideas and place them on what I call  a storyboard.   Sticky notes arranged and rearranged on my desk backing and sometimes on the wall. 

This morning, I jotted down a list of words : communication, transportation, conversation, soundwaves, cableways, railways, skyways, subways, ocean waves.

I continued with opinion, onion, discord, chords, voice, choice, trails, views, above, below, moving, changing, electrical waves, internet. 

 I chose Nouns  without verbs, adjectives without an anchor of place or time.

I post scenes, visions of a cruise ship skimming the ocean, below the depths, a line of heavy cables snakes the bottom. Another scene of a skyway with a child alone in gondola.  For some reason I see an engineer staring out from a cable car, a women holding a diver.  

And yet my divergent mind sees history and faces, images of my travels, markers of the small town where I live, and individuals who could be characters, heroes, and friends. Somehow, I’ll pull a story together.     This is my mulling time.

In the meantime, I’ll continue with  painting, learning to play the keyboard, and writing these snippets.

I wish you all a wonderful holiday season. Be generous with your heart and thoughts.

Thank you for listening to my ruminations, I value you.

Here are a couple samplings of my recent art—more fun that artistic. 

If you’d like copy of my new novel or any of my other novels or children’s book you can request it at your local bookstore, library or buy from my website at a discount. http://www.abberolnick.com