Issue #7
Goals and Ghost Stories
Hello lovely writers and readers,
To write is to dream with the eyes widened and the bounds of reality broken. It is to see beyond what is said to be possible and take a step into the worlds slowly unfurling beneath a careful touch. It’s a way of embracing the beautiful tipping point between creativity and insanity until the two blur just enough to produce something wonderful.
This week, as with every other, I danced upon that line separating reality from fantasy, my head tilted to one side as my feet remained loosely grounded in the other.
My Weekly Reflection
The moments that mean the most to writers are rarely the ones seen. All the little accomplishments, uncontrollable laughter, and smiles crazed by lack of sleep as a glowing screen accepts the outpourings of the heart, are hidden (perhaps for the better) from society.
We, the ones mighty with words but plagued by cricks in the neck and the urge to strangle people who do not even exist, dream of the moment it will all come together. When the sleepless nights and daunting days become a final product, the finished book. The moment when readers will take the time to say you made me feel something.
Yet the moments that will matter the most at the end will be those that were small, silly, triumphant, and full of unabashed joy.
Every time you reach your goal, every time you surprise yourself with something you did not know you had in you, every time the blank page becomes full and the cup in your hand steadily empties as the warmth leaves it and floods into you, every time you find more within yourself than you thought you had left, you are already giving yourself reason enough to be proud. Celebrate the climb as much as you do the summit. Once you hold that book in your hands, it will all become one journey. A journey that you will realize you were always meant to take.
A Favorite Post
I recently found T.P. Kaaos’ work and now cannot get enough of it. Some pieces are sorrowful and reflective, some are beautiful slices of time, and others, like this one, are enriched with goodness, warmth, humor, and light. Lena and Eli fill my heart and refresh my mind with love and the truest kinds of friendship. And their schemes for kidnapping are absolute perfection. Please feel free to bring me along.
A Prompt For The Characters
You yourself have become the character, and in turn, your strangest character has become the author. What’s worse, your character knows who you are, what you did, and they have a plan to ensure all is made right.
A Question To Ponder
If your story were told in reverse, what truth would emerge first?
A Challenge
Write a story in fewer than five hundred words where no one is haunted except the ghost.
Until Next Week…
I hope you all enjoyed the splash of genre variety in this week’s Sundrift Letters. As always, I hope to read all the wonderful things you will create. Stayed tuned for more teasers for The Door Between. They are coming, I promise! Slowly but surely.
KC
https://open.substack.com/pub/mebrady/p/the-haunted-ghost?r=tox79&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true for your prompt
Kaaos is AMAZING!