Subject: The writing thing
From: gaffney@iconn.net
Date: 10/21/1997, 7:35 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Stare at the computer.  This time I'm going to do it.  No
procrastinating.  Nope.  Nuh-uh.  Gonna write.

Better download mail first, just so I'm caught up.  *Then*
I'll write.

(2 hours later)

OK.  Write.  Here I go.  I left off with the end of the Shasti
dream, and I know exactly where I'm going.  I've been plotting
for three weeks now.  I've got my outline.  Here I go.

..

Damn, I really want to see what happens in Younger Venus.  And
I haven't finished Stained Glass Mind yet, either.  I better
read those, otherwise I won't be able to concentrate.

(3 hours later)

This isn't going well.  It's the middle of the afternoon, and
I haven't written anything.  Damnit, why not?

*sigh*

I can tell this is going to be one of those days.  One where I
just don't write anything.  I can sense it.

So maybe it'd be better if I start fresh tomorrow.  Since I'm
telling myself that, I'll follow through with it.  Up at 5am,
and to the keyboard.  Write, write, write.

Ooh, another great idea for a fic.  Better add that to my 
backlog of things to write.  Maybe I'll post a preview to the
FFML, just to make me feel guilty and get me writing.

So:  no writing today.  But tomorrow...boy, am I gonna write.


--Sean Gaffney
--repeat as necessary over three months...