Return of the missing post

(This should have published yesterday, but appears to have saved as a draft instead)

I'm sure I had a great idea for what I was going to write here last night, but now I've woken up it's completely gone - except for the knowledge that I had a good idea, and I was sure to remember it. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but those are the most annoying ideas, no matter what they are - and I especially hate the way my mind remembers the memory of having them, but not the idea itself.

I was thinking about why I'm doing this blog earlier, though, and for me it's working as a form of 'morning pages'. I did once use 750words.com quite regularly, but fell out of that habit, but I found it very useful as a sort of braindump to clear out everything I was thinking of and then get to writing. I think doing it here instead changes the motivation somewhat - there, I could write just about any old crap as long as it got me to the target, whereas here I'm at least semi-conscious of the fact I have an audience, so try and write so that things make at least a rudimentary amount of sense.

The stats say I have an audience, anyway, even if it's just in the single figures everyday, but if you are reading here regularly than thank you, or if you're just dropping by or passing through, then thank you too and I hope something I say interests you enough to pop by again sometime.

As for the writing itself? Yesterday was another decent day, well over 1000 words and I reached 17,792 in total. I'm rebuilding that buffer zone I had to trade away last weekend, but this weekend is looking like one where I'll have more time to write, so I

Inspiration

I often find inspiration in bed. No, not that way - well, sometimes - but I'm one of those people who can take a while to drift off to sleep, and one of the things that helps me get there is thinking over my stories and where they're going to go next. Losing myself in a storyis a good way of letting my attention drift away from whatever annoyances might be keeping me awake, and before I know it, I'm gone.

There is a problem with this, though. While it's good for helping me work out the direction of the story, I often come up with good lines that I can never remember come the morning - and because I'm drifting off to sleep, I never get the chance to write them down. It's very annoying, and I'm sure there are many great lines that have been lost to my dreams that will now never get written down and seen by anyone else.

Which is my way of saying that I'm sure I had a great line to use in yesterday's writing, but by the time I came to write it, it was long gone. Still proud of what I did write, and am now up to 3,250 words, but that 'what could have been' will nag for a while.

But I was over target for another day, and the story's going well, the characters are coming to life - literally, in one case. I was expecting someone to get killed off, but then he proved himself a bit too clever for me to do that. I wonder when we'll see him again?