I have a story from the same world as the last two that started with Cordell's Rebellion. The main character was a side character in Hour of Consequence. The story arc is complete. Unfortunately, there is no character arc. Oops!
I've whined about the difficulty of writing around my day job. All the class prep, grading, and keeping up with ever changing technology has devoured my spare time. Now, the inconvenience of the world's population getting sick and dying has pushed that a little further.
With my overwhelming work schedule this semester, creative things have been finding alternate routes out of my head. I'm sure this is a sanity-saving safety device built into my brain's biology. One of the mechanisms is the spontaneous composition of poems just as I'm preparing for bed.
Have you ever looked at a physical task and thought you should be able to perform it only to find out that you can't? Your first thought may be, "I used to do that all the time," and then you remember that you haven't been exercising like that for a while. Writing can suffer from the same problem.
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The coming summer brings writing time. Story ideas flood my thoughts. Starting as the occasional drip, it's grown into a full rush of plans and plots. I wonder where they will go and if I can capture them all. It looks promising, so far.
For another year, I've been unable to participate in NaNoWriMo. It's one of the conditions of my job that I'm just too busy during the semester to do much creative writing, or anything else creative. At this point, though, I only have to wait another month and a half to have my next batch of free time. How will I ever make it that long?
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It was a grey morning in my small town. I stopped to unlock the door of my shop.
"Hey, buddy, want a dog?"
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