This picture of Arundel Castle was taken last April when we visited Arundel; we didn’t actually make it up to the castle through the driving rain but my partner got a couple of shots through the gloom. I made this one black and white as it looked fairly spooky otherwise.
It’s not actually in the air of course, just up a steep hill 🙂
‘Castles in the air’ is a phrase to describe ideas that are unlikely to happen. Sometimes I feel like that about my writing but I know that I’ll carry on working at it whether an agent picks my novel(s) up or not, so it’s not really true. It is something my characters have to face on occasion though!
But looking at the solidity of the castle, and thinking about what history this castle has survived, gives me hope.
We have no idea, when we create something, how long it will survive us. It may not; it may be lost in the ether. But the men who laid the stones of these walls, or who built the original motte-and-bailey castle on this site, wouldn’t have imagined the world that still looks in on this building. They wouldn’t have imagined mobile phones, or cars, or the computer I’m typing on. Their work outlived them by countless generations.
We can’t guarantee what will survive us of the work we produce – all we can do is work, and hope, and work some more.
Here’s to hoping that the clouds our dreams rest on are as solid as mountains.
Happy writing,
EJ
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Becoming a writer 
Looks Northanger Abbey-esque…
Funnily enough it does have some similarities to the building used in the tv version of NA, which was Lismore Castle in Ireland (I looked it up!) – I didn’t actually see that version and now I want to watch it!
I prob have it on DVD – have the entire Classic Drana DVD collection should you want to raid it!
That’ll be cool – or perhaps we should have a period drama day 🙂 xx