I am now a real writer.
Sep. 18th, 2004 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerI have just had a beautiful and amazing thing happen to me.
Allow me to tell you the tale.
I was supposed to go to bed at about 2PM, so as to sleep eight hours and wake up at 10 for my last shift of the week. I got to procrastinating, and the next thing I know, it's 4PM. Figuring that 6 hours of sleep would probably be fine, I trundle off to bed. I figure it'll take a little while to get wound down, so as an exercise in falling asleep, I start to think about where I'm going to go with my NaNoWarmup story next.
Cue a blinding flash of inspiration, coupled with - amazingly enough - an intense and immediate desire to write.
Not only have I spent the last three hours writing instead of sleeping, all of the prose I have produced has been - wait for it - good. As in, "this is just about exactly what I wanted to accomplish with this scene" good.
I'm finally starting to feel like I'm capable of leaving things off so that I can at least nap a bit before work. Go figure, however, that this is just where things were about to get steamy. Seriously. The last line I wrote was:
She leaned down and kissed him, taking him by surprise.
I guess it won't be hard to pick up later, eh?
So, where can I pick up my "Real Writer (With A Capital W)" badge?
Allow me to tell you the tale.
I was supposed to go to bed at about 2PM, so as to sleep eight hours and wake up at 10 for my last shift of the week. I got to procrastinating, and the next thing I know, it's 4PM. Figuring that 6 hours of sleep would probably be fine, I trundle off to bed. I figure it'll take a little while to get wound down, so as an exercise in falling asleep, I start to think about where I'm going to go with my NaNoWarmup story next.
Cue a blinding flash of inspiration, coupled with - amazingly enough - an intense and immediate desire to write.
Not only have I spent the last three hours writing instead of sleeping, all of the prose I have produced has been - wait for it - good. As in, "this is just about exactly what I wanted to accomplish with this scene" good.
I'm finally starting to feel like I'm capable of leaving things off so that I can at least nap a bit before work. Go figure, however, that this is just where things were about to get steamy. Seriously. The last line I wrote was:
She leaned down and kissed him, taking him by surprise.
I guess it won't be hard to pick up later, eh?
So, where can I pick up my "Real Writer (With A Capital W)" badge?
