Coffee With David

One of these days I may learn that when my muse stops talking it is usually means I am not writing the story correctly. This was the case with “The Last Friend” that I sent off for hopeful publication last month and it was the case with “The Indebted.” Hopefully I can recognize what I am doing wrong in the future and fix it. What did I do so wrong?

In both stories, the story is to be a personal for the reader to feel the pain, the solitude, and the desperation of the characters. This can be accomplished in many ways. Every writer who tries to write a story like this does it in their own style. It can be a story told in third person and reach the reader. However, when I started writing those stories in third person there seemed a built in distance that I was not able to bridge. Considering the story, it was a gap that needed to be forged for the story to have life. In response to this, I changed the style of writing from a third person narrator to a first person narration. As I wrote I felt the story come to life.

I pray that I have now learned this tiny lesson in my life as a writer: when writer’s block hits it is time to listen to your muse and see what it is you are doing wrong.

Thank you for reading and please visit www.davidalanlucas.com for up to date information on the stories, novels and blogs I am writing.