FINDING A
LOST STORY
Every writer has one. The story
that got away. Maybe you write on a computer and didn’t save the file before
the electricity faltered. Maybe you only made one copy and a friend borrowed it
and doesn’t remember ever having seen it. Maybe your familiar ate it.
Here is how I retrieved a missing chapter of
my novel, A WITCH TO LIVE.
You will need a blank sheet of
paper of the same kind you use for writing, whether lined or typing paper or
computer paper. It must be the same kind you usually use. You need string – any
kind will do. You need a yellow candle.
Cast your circle. A quick circle
for folk spells will do, nothing elaborate needed. Now roll the paper into a
tube, seal it with candle wax from your yellow candle and tie it round with one
end of the string, leaving the other end long enough to reach you across your
kitchen table or your altar or desk.
Light your candle. It should be
positioned to one side of the working space. Now throw the rolled paper to the
far end of your table, altar or desk. Slowly, with much concentration, pull the
paper toward you. Slowly. As if you are fishing. Slowly, while you chant,
(these or other words) word and spirit, paper hear it, bring to mind from
out of time, the story line, the story fine, the story’s mine.…
Keep up the chant as you slowly pull the paper toward
you. When it is very near, capture it with both hands and bind the
string clockwise around it. Let the candle burn. Keep the paper in a safe place
until the story re-manifests. Note: it does this as you put pen to paper once
more with full intent to capture what has been lost. After the story returns,
burn the paper and string and give thanks to Saga or your own Muse or God/dess
of story.
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