A Diary’s House: Where True Love Endures

I suppose the world began for me (in the figurative sense) during my earliest years, growing up in the mountains of North Carolina. Truly, what a magical place. It can cause the mind to grow with its imagination, bring new worlds into being - and at times inspire us to believe there is a ‘good earth’ in us all. I never had a tempered imagination. There were worlds which I only knew of, and no one else could even fathom or even understand. Worlds I created; some from the fabrics and parcels of reality; others derived exclusively from my own imagination. But one of these worlds, in fact, was the place and times which I utilized as the primary backdrop for ‘A Diary’s House’. It was a complicated venture, taking years to evolve and produce the story it ultimately became to be.

As a writer you have to inscribe the elements which best attracts your audience to ‘come inside’, so to speak. Something of interest and magnitude. A place where people have relations with and understanding of the moments and times each character will experience and live through within the novel itself. A novel is an adventure. Not only for the reader, but also for the writer as well. In a delayed sense, both will experience the journey together.

The first thing I tell any writer is that you will discover so much about yourself when you write a novel. It brings clarity to your soul; defines the outlines of your spirit. In the end you will find yourself a better person for doing so because it forces you, as an individual, to constantly evaluate yourself. How else is a person to grow, if not for the reflective nature a mirror can show? Life is a challenge. But also finding yourself is as much of a challenge as anything you will ever experience in life.

This takes you to the connection between the reader and the writer. Such a connection has to be of the most genuine kind. It needs to be a trusting relationship. We, as writers, must always speak earnestly to the readers; give dimension to our cause to which we have a ‘voice’ for. The characters have to be impactful and show correct familiarity to the ways one might act in each situation. Scenes and situations where the drama is embedded have to carry the strongest thread of truth in it. The audience will not trust the writer otherwise.

So the journey begins. A journey where the road is not clearly known, yet the destination is assured. I have traveled a good distance on this journey. Now I ask you to join with me; to discover the lands which I have created. The places and the homes to the heart where all who are touched by this story will find it to be a most refreshing world to envelop themselves within.

This can become a perilous tale. One fraught with danger, adventure, drama, joys and sorrows, and the ultimate redemption of all. You will see this world thru the eyes of Landon Hampshire. His eyes will become yours. Close your eyes and let your imagination draw sight for the words you read. The images will soon follow. Once this world is brought into view, you are ready to begin. Your thoughts will reach for his hopes and dreams. You will become his champion, his companion, and his ‘angel on the shoulder’. And during your travels together, your emotions will become his, and his will become yours.

This is a journey unlike any other. You will sense Landon’s feelings and emotions as if they were your own. It will become a virtual reality in the world of your mind. ‘A Diary’s House’ will take you there. The story is steeply buried in legend and lore, and you will become a first-hand witness to the world he must endure. But before you go on this journey you must understand that your first-formed impressions will attempt to calculate what you are about ready to enter into. Don’t believe your impressions. There is so much more embedded within this time and place you are yet to know of.

Why do I say this? Simple. It was that way for me during the stages of writing this novel. It took me to places I never knew of; not ever explored, yet became the very fabric and backbone into the novel you are preparing to escape into.

So Landon is waiting for you… He has a story to tell. He is on a journey to find the essential treasure needed for his life. And in this long-reaching hope, perhaps you will discover a bit of yourself in the process. How far does the depths of one’s soul go? You are about ready to find out. Not only for Landon, or for the other pertinent characters inside ‘A Diary’s House’, or for me as the writer, but also for any reader who dares to enter into this magical world.

It’s a special place I assure you; a very special place. Laughter will come; tears will flow, and you will find a piece of yourself sitting on the opposite end of this incredible tale.

I think the term ‘Language from the Heart’ is very appropriate for this particular blog. Each entry will speak to your heart and I hope it will move you; to reflect, to discover a lining of hope, to dream of something new, to affect change, and at last - encourage all of us to do our part to make this a better world…

Until the next heartbeat…

C. David Murphy

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