Just...delete this. You don't have to read it. It's boring.
Sorry.
1:30 AM: My day starts when I go to bed. That isn't as dumb as
it sounds. Creatively speaking, much of my writing goes on while I'm
"telling" myself stories to put myself to sleep, or when I'm driving,
to stay awake. I've got an idea for a moderately unusual Ranma
alternate history . That plotline keeps popping up and getting in way
of my trying to visualise the Kodachi/Bie-Deh catfight from "For Every
Action". I may actually have to write a little of it, even though Ranma
alternate histories are a glut on the market and White Wolf already
started something similar. But my central character would be totally
different.
9:30 AM: Check my e-mail. Everyone's doing that stupid Why I write/How
I write thing. I pause for 5 minutes, consider how I write, realise
that it would be boring to go into, and would reveal too much about
about my life. Decide not to do it. I leave the computer on all
day, even when I go and look for work or mess around or a few hours.
It wastes electricity, true, but Windows 95 has a habit of geeking
when I turn the computer on too often. I find that...frightening.
It also tends to crash when I disconnect or miss sacrificing a
chicken on full moons, but there's nothing to be done about that.
Bill Gates is a jerk.
1:30: Driving, I put on some music. "Froggy moves one step at
a time...the way that he moves has no reason or rhyme." Reminds me
of Ranma. A lot of people are too hard on Ranma, interpreting his
inability to think ahead as deliberate cruelty. Stupid song, but I
like it. "Centipede multiplies and divides, comes after you
from every side" Reminds me of Bubblegum Crisis. The stupid thing
about organic technology is that you can't trust it to stay put.
That's the reason why Boomers go insane, because the biological
brains have cells that multiply, divide, and mutate. Same problem
on "They Were 11" with the living technology there. Turning living
creatures into tools is dangerous. I should write some of "Seedling"
while I'm at it today. Or at least start figuring out who the rest
of the characters are. Let's see...Zachariah Mudd, the engineer.
Comical tough guy. Basicly my Joe Boggs RPG template. Could work.
1:50: Check e-mail. Hope I didn't offend Kleppe.
No more requests for "For Every Action"s previous
parts. I archived it somewhere. Wish I could remember where.
I wonder what was so special about Part 11, that suddenly everyone
wanted to read the previous parts? Must have had 15 requests for it.
Probably just demographics. It took me a little while to get it
out after all. Truth is, Part 11 should have been the date, but
the date's giving me trouble so I had Nabiki mess with them instead.
Kodachi shouldn't fall for "Kaneda" just because he's good looking.
She's into that damsel in distress routine, but how can I endanger
Kodachi convincingly? Write two paragraphs of byplay between
Bie-Deh and Akane. More cutesy Bie-Deh stuff. Cut and paste
Kodachi/nearsighted thing to the end, works better there.
2:30: Check e-mail. Hah, picked up and was out before they
even checked my password and started the meter ticking. DWJ,
cyber-bandit. Cute. Nene as a magic-hacker. Does that mean
that Sylia and Nene will be the ranged attackers of the team,
while Priss and Linna punch and kick? Maybe I should write
more Circularity? Open it, look at it. Maybe Score should
be hired to kidnap Sandy. Naaah! Delete Priss. Don't need
her yet, and if I have her performing that night, I can use that
to intro Score. Too much coincidence, but I have SM to use
as coincidence ex machina. Not yet. Close Circularity.
4:30: What a lame ending. I could write a better ending for that
movie. In fact I did. The whole movie could have been a rip-off
my RPG scenario. Check e-mail. Windows doesn't like me, log off
and try again. Revenge-fics. I could write one where Akane the
super-psychotic emerges on our Earth and the only way Kleppe can
stop her is to... Could work, but I don't like writing grotesque
deaths. Besides it's another Ranma fic. What-his-name, Cobb? will
start complaining again. I should do that Futaba/City Hunter
crossover. Titles...Blood Hunter? Change For the Worse? How do
I get Ryo to talk to Iroka instead of Kaori? That's Kaori's job,
but Ryo needs to make a pass at her. Of course, Ryo wouldn't pass
up the chance to meet a famous tv star and sex symbol. Got it!
He shows up unexpectedly when Kaori's meeting her. Kaori gets mad.
Akane Tendo thinks she has it bad. Ryo Saeba versus Happosai.
Could give Happosai a cameo in the story. Write it later.
5:30: Check e-mail. OK, time to do some work on For Every Action.
I can't do the catfight yet so expand on the date. Up to 28 kbs. Put
in an Akane's cooking joke. Scatter a couple of "Akane might just be
tempted" inner thoughts. Oops just hit 30 kbs in my text file.
Windows won't let me go further in this file. Bill Gates is a
jerk. Fine, go back and reverse a bad sentence structure in
Part 11, do a little cutting so I can write one more sentence.
Guess I'm done. Paste the latest bit into a mail form and mail
it.
6:15: Check E-mail. Hey, it's back already. 11 took four days,
go figure. Oh shit, I forgot to finish the subject line. What a
pain. Should I apologise to everyone? Don't be an idiot, nobody
cares, and you shouldn't spam everyone to no purpose. You can
write one of those dumb "How I Write" articles and slip in the
apology. Yeah, that's the ticket. I'm sorry. So there.
6:30: Reboot's on tonight. Must remember to watch. Maybe
I should write a Reboot/Compiler crossover. Minor problem, I don't
like Compiler. Nice art, but I think it was written by idiots.
It would just be an excuse to do a Reboot fic. Of course I think
Sailor Moon can be pretty idiotic as well, and I might write
"Pax" one of these days. Of course instead, I'm writing this
stupid "How I Write" article.
7:30: I just spent an hour writing this crap. I'm going to have
to write fiction after "Reboot" just to justify myself. This is
boring. Nobody cares. Post it anyway with a disclaimer at the
top. It'll waste a lot less time for the people reading it
than it did for me writing it. Proofread it first. Check E-mail.