J P Smythe’s Website.

I find the start of things terribly exciting. (Perhaps this is why I’ve got five aborted novel beginnings on my computer desktop?)  This is the start of another, but something feels different with this one.  I am hoping, praying, whatever, that it’s a keeper.  More about this another time, but, for now, an image.  I’m writing this one differently.  I’m planning as I go, constructing it like one might a building, writing chunks and then arranging them, letting them slot together as they will.  Here’s the start of it, sans the actual words that I’m putting down on (digital) paper.