[Saxony Tarn]

my thanks, LMP, for taking over the bartender duties while i've been letting my brain cool down! And it's supposed to be pleasant all week -- huzzah. (maybe i can get some writing done!)

Good question Naaramare, and you're not alone. My stories tend to be written when they want to be, and when they take a holiday, nothing i can do will force them out. For example, Keviran (the band quoted earlier that LMP liked so much) was first written down loosely in a matter of weeks, then sat in the back of a box (and my brain) for TEN YEARS until a few things fell into place. Then it was like extracting a zipped file. Also in that box are enough incomplete stories that i'm determined to bring the one i'm working on now to a close whether it wants to be or not. (with enough ideas for a sequel, i think it will find an end. Just what end, though, depends on the volunteer beta readers' votes.)

And speaking of "Trust Me", it made it clear to me after about a month of trying NOT to write it that it was going to drive me mad if i didn't. So i write in the evenings (ambient temperature permitting) and red-pen the manuscript during breaks at work. Every day (with occasional evenings off to remind myself that i still have some semblance of a social life) This past weekend some missing lines in a pivotal scene came into form (my excuse for turning my back on the board for the weekend this time) and with luck, i'll be able to move it along toward its conclusion (taking down some hasty notes on where i expected it to go will prove to have been a wise move, i'm sure)

But since i can never depend on this erratic source of inspiration to be steady, i can easily talk myself out of trying to make a living at it. A friend of mine who does make his living at it sometimes has to provoke that creative flow to come when he needs it to -- at times i don't know how he does it (but i'm certain that nothing carrying a criminal charge is involved... B) )

This is a guy who believes he "was put on this Earth to tell stories" (and before you ask, FWW members, he's one of my contacts.)

|_|) <-- a toast to our Muses!

S.T.