{"id":24721,"date":"2021-10-19T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=24721"},"modified":"2021-10-14T04:28:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:28:16","slug":"the-novel-garden-by-la-bourgeois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/19\/the-novel-garden-by-la-bourgeois\/","title":{"rendered":"The Novel Garden by LA Bourgeois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Novel-Garden-by-LA-Bourgeois.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24723 size-medium\" title=\"The Novel Garden by LA Bourgeois\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Novel-Garden-by-LA-Bourgeois-300x300.png\" alt=\"The Novel Garden by LA Bourgeois\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Novel-Garden-by-LA-Bourgeois-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Novel-Garden-by-LA-Bourgeois-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Novel-Garden-by-LA-Bourgeois-320x320.png 320w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/The-Novel-Garden-by-LA-Bourgeois.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Let&#8217;s welcome back <a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?s=LA+bourgeois\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA Bourgeois<\/a> as she shares with us \u201cThe Novel Garden.\u201d Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>While we may be familiar with drawing maps to build our worlds<\/strong>, we rarely think of our stories in the same way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I love digging in the dirt, and my addiction to gardening shows that I am constantly thrilled by the brilliant colors of flowers and foliage. As I plotted out my garden plans last year, I began to eye my novel-in-progress in the same way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What would <i>it<\/i>\u00a0look like as a garden?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I began to draw it out, a little here, and a little there. Closing my eyes, I watched the path meander from a barren cliffside through a bramble hedge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>I added a tool shed for those indispensable necessities<\/strong>, and a veggie garden for substance. A walnut tree represented choices that seemed good but caused poor results. A gathering space served for community and the promise of friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The path spiraled in, flowers springing up and butterflies winging their way from petal to petal until I reached the folly, that central beautiful moment which, when entered, sent the main character right back out onto that barren cliff to overcome her main obstacle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>However, the portal works both ways<\/strong>, and by overcoming that obstacle, she can slip just as easily back into the haven I built for her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea was new but set in winter, so spring colors fought with winter\u2019s gray. The exercise felt like a dream of the novel, with ideas stored in each image that sprang to my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Draw the Plan for Your Novel Garden<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Garden-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24722\" title=\"Garden\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Garden-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Garden\" width=\"143\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Garden-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Garden-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Garden-768x1076.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Garden-1096x1536.jpg 1096w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Garden-1461x2048.jpg 1461w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Garden-640x897.jpg 640w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Garden-scaled.jpg 1827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/a>When you imagine your novel as a garden, what does it look like? Draw out your garden plan without thinking too much about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What season are you experiencing?<\/strong> The first buds of spring? The wild abundance of autumn? Perhaps the flowers are in full bloom, or winter\u2019s chill is exposing the strong bare bones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is the landscape full of meandering paths? Maybe it\u2019s a strictly formal garden, flowers regimented in rows. Or do you see something more like a corn maze?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What buildings are in your garden?<\/strong> A simple greenhouse? Maybe a toolshed. Perhaps you need a magical glass castle of an arboretum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How about water? Is there a lake? A fountain? Maybe a waterfall or a chic pool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What flowers are here?<\/strong> Trees? Brambles? Shrubs? Are you growing nutritious vegetables? Maybe you have a cottage garden where veggies are interplanted with flowers to cut? Or a tumbled quilt of wildflowers?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does any wildlife make a home in your garden? Bees buzzing around the flowers and zipping back out to their hive? Maybe bunnies hop through the hedges. An old dog might curl up underneath the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Whether the images seem to go together or not<\/strong>, allow them to nestle into your landscape plan. This garden is imaginary, so everything is invited!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you are done sketching the bones, pull out your colored pencils, markers, crayons, and paints! Add some color to your sketch and bring the image to life.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What Do You Discover within Your Novel Garden?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After you have completed the piece, set it aside for a day. When you return to it, what do you notice? What do each of the choices you made mean to your work? Is there meaning hiding under the lilies? Does clarity fill the central fountain?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Creativity rarely leads a linear path<\/strong>, even though fiction often moves that way. Fill your page full, and enjoy the vision of your abundant novel as a garden!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT THE BOOK REVIEWER<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LA_Profile-768x768-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24441\" title=\"LA Bourgeois\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LA_Profile-768x768-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"LA Bourgeois\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LA_Profile-768x768-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LA_Profile-768x768-1-640x640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LA_Profile-768x768-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LA_Profile-768x768-1-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LA_Profile-768x768-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>LA (as in tra-la-la) Bourgeois supports writers, makers, and other creatives in growing their creative businesses and breaking away from their day jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a creativity &amp; business coach, she believes that exploring your creativity invites joy into your life, embracing your creativity infuses your life with joy, and manifesting your creativity gives you a joyous purpose. Writing and knitting are her non-negotiable mediums, and she can usually be found with a pen or knitting needles in her hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find her free guide, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tricking Yourself into a Creative Habit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> online at<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/labourgeois.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">labourgeois.biz<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and start writing those words today. She can\u2019t wait to read them!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When designing a novel\u2019s setting, we draw maps and scenes, but what if we do this for plot? 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