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15/11/07
Where has this come from?

A couple of days ago I felt inspired to sit down and write. I wrote two very intricate paragraphs describing the salt flats on the Essex coast, their appearance, atmosphere, history etc.

Strange isn't it?

I can hear you asking why.

Well, it is strange because I have never been to Essex in my life, or this type of coastline and have never to my knowledge ever heard anything about the salt industry of the area - in fact when I sat down to write it I had intended to write an entry for the resources under the section of 'Snow', but instead this came out.

Well the whole thing was very spooky, and I must confess to feeling a bit rattled.

Most puzzling events in my life are approached by Googling as a first resort. So I Googled - in webpages and images - and then things were most definitely spooky because everything I had written was true and accurate, plants I had mentioned, wildlife, and landscape, even the peculiar spoon shaped bay which I had described and the disused salt workings there.

I'm going to keep on writing this work because I want to see what happens. I don't know if it's a novel, novelette, or just a short story, or a piece of writing about the sale industry - I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

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Comment from: chausiku [Member]
Amazing Sue...you must have been there in a previous life...
PermalinkPermalink 15/11/07 @ 19:49
Comment from: maureen [Member] · http://www.maureen-vincent-northam.co.uk
Spooky indeed. It will be interesting to hear what else you 'pick up' from this.
PermalinkPermalink 15/11/07 @ 19:54
Comment from: linda d [Member] Email · http://www.writelink.co.uk/blogs/linda
As soon as I started reading this I 'saw' a very clear picture of desolate, wind-swept marshes . . . Did it come from my imagination - or yours?
I wouldn't worry too much about where your inspiration is coming from, just get it all down in writing.
PermalinkPermalink 16/11/07 @ 10:28
Comment from: dids blog [Member]
Interesting and a little spooky.
PermalinkPermalink 16/11/07 @ 11:17
Comment from: marilyn [Member] Email · http://www.writelink.co.uk/blogs/marilyn
It's amazing how much information we subconsciously collate without even knowing it.

After all we are surrounded with information albeit images, or words that we might be skimming without even knowing whilst researching for something else, or from overhearing conversations - the radio etc.

Our minds are quite receptive, or like you say it is perhaps just altogether too spooky...
PermalinkPermalink 16/11/07 @ 17:27
Comment from: sujen [Member] Email
Well it's quite spooky and a little worrying too. I wouldn't want to spend a lot of time re-writing a novel I had read sometime and forgotten!
PermalinkPermalink 16/11/07 @ 18:49

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