My day takes a not unwelcome left turn
January 14th, 2006 by Bill
So I went to Purgatorian and saw JJ’s Flashfiction thing and started writing. I’ve got it done, though I haven’t posted it yet. I will eventually.
But it’s one of those cascading things. I realized I was actually writing a story I’d had in my head for quite a long time. (That’s one of the reasons it sort of sucks – it’s all exposition.)
Anyway … it transformed at some point into the beginnings of a screenplay and now I don’t want to do anything except write it because it’s one of those things where one idea triggers another and so on. One of the frustrations, of course, is that the head runs way ahead of the fingers … the typing can’t keep up.
The point is … whatever it was I was planning to do today ain’t getting done because I keep going back to this damn thing.
Of course, this may be another one of those projects that dies on the vine. I’m hoping not, and guessing not since this idea has been kicking around in my head for quite a while.
What makes writing stories interesting, for me at least, is while I know a few things about them, I really don’t know what the story is until it’s written. So writing, for me, is all about discovery.
And it’s kinda cool.
(I’d also like to quit my job now so I can just stay at home and write this. Don’t think that’ll be happening though.)
Tag: Writing
Listen to this podcast
