Aha on foot
Probably 10 years ago I took a writing-for-children workshop and started a novel. I never did complete the first draft, because I never found the ending and there were all sorts of other problems. The protagonists were the wrong age for what I thought they could do. But ever since, when I see one of my classmates, she asks me if I''ve finished it yet. She likes the premise and wants to know what happens. As flattering as that was and as much as it tells me about what I did do, I haven't had any intention of ever completing it.
Until this morning. With a scorcher by our standards predicted for today, I got out for a walk before I even had my oj. Mostly I thought about how I was going to spend my 15 minutes. But about 3/4 of the way home, I got an idea. Enough to write it down in my notebook and put it on the list of future projects. I'll have to do some serious research, not in archives, but in a specific portion of the real world. Next summer.
Note to self: Don't slack off on the morning walks.
halseanderson
15 minute test--Did 35! Not stuff that will make it into any drafts, but stuff that tells me more about my characters.
Now to catch up on some of those itty-bitty writing tasks I've gotten myself into.
Until this morning. With a scorcher by our standards predicted for today, I got out for a walk before I even had my oj. Mostly I thought about how I was going to spend my 15 minutes. But about 3/4 of the way home, I got an idea. Enough to write it down in my notebook and put it on the list of future projects. I'll have to do some serious research, not in archives, but in a specific portion of the real world. Next summer.
Note to self: Don't slack off on the morning walks.
halseanderson
15 minute test--Did 35! Not stuff that will make it into any drafts, but stuff that tells me more about my characters.
Now to catch up on some of those itty-bitty writing tasks I've gotten myself into.