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Usually I turn my efforts to writing when I am unhappy, angry, sad, feeling uncertain, or just plain messed up. This time it is not working so well.
My 15 year old son (who I gave up for Open Adoption), is in hospital in Christchurch with a shattered pelvis and his friend is in a Coma. They were hit by a 4-wheel drive while cycling on State Highway 7 near where they live. I'm in Palmy North waiting until his parents allow me to visit before jumping on a plane.
I need a jolt to get me writing again. I need to loose myself in my writing. Any ideas? Any tricks you use?

"Words are magic I wish to harness and wield well."

Hi nevermind. I'm so sorry about your son. I hope you hear something soon.

Sometimes it can be hard to channel that emotion into something that requires you sitting still for any length of time.

I don't have anythign that's really worked for me but maybe you could focus on one particular feeling or image and begin describing it.

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Oh you are having a bad run nevermind. I hope you have more information on the two boys condition, and are soon able to see them.
Maybe just putting your thoughts on paper, not necessarily into a story, just notes to help you unload your mind full of worry at the moment.

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My parents live in Christchurch, so went to see him. They said he was very bright and smiling. He will probably be out of hospital by this weekend and will have a wheelchair for quite a few months. When they saw him, he was lying relax on a pillar with a sheet over him, one leg in a cast, moving his toes. Drips have been removed, so he was no longer on morphine.
He has a broken left pelvis which will mend on its own and after that he will be able to use crutches. His other leg the femur was smashed and he has at present a metal rod between his hip and knee which will be removed later, he has 3 bolts 1 in his ankle one in his knee and 1 in his thigh. The other boy was out of his coma and is improving.
The accident was not their fault, police say.
I have no sign from him that he needs to see me - so will go down later. My parents are having a busy month, but will keep in touch with his parents.

Thanks for the ideas and kind words.

"Words are magic I wish to harness and wield well."

I'm glad you heard how he's doing. My fiance's father fell out of a tree he was pruning last month. He fractured his vertubrae and arm and has been unable to sit down until this week. He's in Timaru and we're in Wellington so again, hard to be so far away and know what strain him and my soon-to-be mother-in-law are going through.

How did the writing go?

No Excuses. Just Write.
SoCNoC - Untitled Chick Lit
Freeing the Flame - 30,065/40,000 words rewritten for May

Not writing yet. But have caught myself in Maurice Gee's new book "Salt" - which gives me some of the feel I was trying to have in my novel.

"Words are magic I wish to harness and wield well."