Kristina Lloyd's Dirty Words

These notes are from the wicked redhead herself, Kristina Lloyd, who shares my fascination at looking into other people's windows. (I mean, I think she does. I hope those were her eyes I saw peering into my bathroom window last Tuesday at eleven.)

Two lots of notes for you, both from when I was writing Split. One is unusually neat. Split has stories within stories (hence my cute Russian doll!) and I was trying to set down on paper how they linked up. Sometimes, the point of my notes is to be tidy and make order from the chaos in my head to stop me going nuts. When I'm trying to generate ideas, I use coloured pens in some vaguely synaesthesic way. So say I want to think about a particular character, I'll write their name in felt-tip pen and first spend time thinking, 'Hmm, what colour is this character? Is she purple? Blue? Yellow? What sort of blue? Oooh, definitely not navy.' I don't think I was trying to generate ideas here, I was trying to control them. But the colours probably had some significance. Actually, looking at the page now, I can still see what those coloured boxes were probably suggesting. Oh, and you can make out the word 'GHOSTLY' showing through from the other side of the page. That's in black and grey and is written in silly, shaky ghostly handwriting.

The second pic is more typical - scruffy jottings about filth, a tea stain and some random nonsense that has nothing to do with what I'm working on. Here I've written 'Stomach rumbling like a pod of whales (Beth)'. I have no idea what that relates to but it's certainly not Split.

And I stockpile Silvine spiral-bound notebooks ref 14l (ruled feint, no margin) and Pilot Hi-tecpoint V5 pens (black). God, the things you make me reveal! Am looking forward to other people's notes!

KLx

More notes to come shortly—and send yours on to msalisontyler at yahoo dot com, won't you?

XXX,
Alison