Friday, Friday, Give Me Your Answer, Do
My weekly post at the Midnight Hour is up. It’s about observation as the key to writing.
Today is a slow, sleepy day. Everyone is moving slowly and taking their time. I just almost gave myself a charley horse by stretching too quickly. How’s that for an inane, useless fact? In any case, it’s Friday, and I’m starting my weekend early. I’m within spitting distance (four or five scenes) of finishing the third Kismet book, which is awesome. If I get into it today and just write straight through I may have a workable draft by midnight.
Notice it will just be a workable draft, not fit for human consumption until it gets a bit of editing. As Elizabeth Bear points out, it is not necessary to write the perfect story. It’s just necessary to write the damn story, and you can fix whatever’s gone wrong in the second pass. The story will largely take care of itself, it’s always worked before.
Sometimes I wish life was like that. Then I think of reincarnation and think, maybe it is. But that usually spawns a fresh story, and I need another project like I need a hole in the head.
Eh, I’m not one for deep philosophizing today. Over and out.
