Mental Meanderings

Nocturnal House, writing, and being awake

I'm barely awake this morning. It's Friday mornings I most regret having to be up at 6:30AM. I like to watch Stargate: Atlantis which starts at 10:30PM Thursday and goes for an hour. That means I normally don't get to bed till nearly midnight. As I've mentioned before I don't cope well on less than 8 hours of sleep. I'm yawning away and trying to get my brain functioning. Perhaps Friday morning requires a coffee. I don't normally drink coffee but perhaps it would perk me up enough to function today.

This morning I wrote the Nocturnal House scene. Or at least I started it, I was struggling and I though I still had ages of my time left so I started getting more involved in the scene and in the end the timer buzzed and I didn't finish.

I'm actually feeling pretty good about this scene. After the innitial hesitation the story moved along well and while it will undoubtably still need a fair bit of work after my first draft is finished, it will perhaps need less than other scenes.

I'm planning to outline and perhaps write a short story today. Short stories are not really my thing. Well in so much as I haven't had much practice with them. I'm not really sure what constitutes a short story. I've often felt one scene would count as a short story. Perhaps instead of outlining the story today I should research. I'd like to be able to write short stories. I'd also like to get some articles into circulation and I've still got a pile of magazines to study. I guess it's about time to get to it.