Ooh, it only took a few days this time.

Look at that. Just three days between posts. Three! In some ways, I am terrified by this. What if I start bloging about recent events, things that are happening currently? Someone other than my wife and myself might read it!

As mentioned in my last post, I went to writing just as soon as I closed the browser window. A scant 242 words (shoot, I opened the file again. I had better work on it a bit), but it still left me feeling strangely accomplished.

I had 24 hours at work over the weekend to consider why this is. Nikoda (Wife. see link to the right if you didn't come from her blog anyway) says it was because Eric Nylund told me to write and post stuff... But I don't know. Certainly that helped light a fire under my ass, but I don't think that he mentioned anything about feeling accomplished for having written a few hundred words.

I really still haven't figured it out, but I think it has something to do with the characters I'm working with right now are finally really starting to take on their own voice. In my head, at least. I think they've always come off as separate on screen, but sometimes they sound the same as I read them. Oh, these two are clearly the same person, just with different names. Another thing I am afraid of. Curiously, not this time. The converse of that is that they are finally getting into some interpersonal conflict, which would naturally lead them down different paths.

I guess the problem too with that is that I have not felt that way about something I've written since I was... 16? 10 years ago. And that was not exactly the best thing I've ever written, no surprise. I didn't feel like I would have to come back around and sharpen that bit two or three times before it was where I wanted it to be. Punctuation, some sentence structure and that kind of thing certainly, that always needs work. But not what was being said, not how the characters were saying it.

For once, it was like the situation appeared on the screen like it should be.