Water and Ice...

When previously I have been known to babble about coincidence... for a reminder you could check out one of my rather boring rant entries but the humour will be lost on the vast majority of onlookers - pretty much everyone who has not been involved in the recent escapades of Lancelot to be precise.

Long ago (by my lifespan anyhow) I tried my hand at painting abstract figures and portraits. One of which was a particularly interesting creation - at a number of times throughout the ensuing years I have met and become involved with people who have either resembled this figure or slowly evolved to resemble this figure. Quite odd perhaps? Perhaps not. Imagination has a nasty habit of running wild on occasion.

But what of the writer who has manuscripts unseen by others and then discovers after knowing someone for a short time that they are incredibly similar to one of the characters..? Only having read one such manuscript, I cannot be in a position to make proper comment, but I can appreciate the true oddity of the possibility that somehow a person in real life is incredibly similar to a character (or collection of characters) in a novel that an author penned many years ago never having met the living embodyment of their hero. This is not a problem. What happens when the author then does meet the personification of their character... that is a different matter and sometimes the boundaries between imagination and reality have become blurred by the digestion of grape juice. While I find sometimes find it difficult to understand fully the situation here, not being the author (nor even witness) to many of these works; somehow I can fully appreciate the complexity of the situation - enough to have a good laugh at any rate!

But to all you writers out there, please keep creating - I take great enjoyment in experiencing the works of those who have a gift of words; the creative future is largely in your minds.