Shower ideas. They’re the best, right?

This morning I was hit with a bolt of inspiration whilst washing my hair. Some people sing in the shower, others try to plug plot holes or divine a character’s motivation. Whatever floats your boat, so to speak.

I quickly hammered out some notes in a Google Docs file before scampering off to work, wishing I could stay home and further elaborate on my thoughts, but the important part was I got to preserve them. Other distractions prevented me from fleshing them out more than I’d like this evening, but I’m still very happy to have those notes captured and ripening on the vine, so to speak.

It also occurred to me today that the current planning / outlining stage I’m at with this project is not unlike plotting / drafting plans for a house. I never was any good with my hands, but I caught myself wondering if this is how people feel when they’re physically building something from the ground up, or are rebuilding a carburetor or some other automotive analogy at which I’m completely failing here.

It feels good, is what I’m getting at, and I hope to feel more of it in the not-too-distant future.

(So I accidentally made this a site page a few days ago instead of a blog post. Whoops. Originally written on May 7th, but posting it here now because why not? Live and learn.)

Oh hey, look. It’s May. There goes that whole ‘maybe I’ll update this blog every week in 2018’ idea.

Whoops.

Anyway, at the risk of setting myself up for failure once more, I’ll see what I can do from here on out.

Things have been going well on the writing front as of late. I can officially say that I’m a published author, having had one of my short stories included in Chillers from the Rock in March. I’ve also managed to win a flash fiction challenge as well, which was an unexpected yet very pleasant surprise. Both are thanks to Engen Books, which is run by an amazing group of people and features many talented writers.

I’ve yet to really dig in on something bigger than short stories (of which I’m working on a few for the next From The Rock series and a flying anthology for 2019), though I do have plans. I keep meaning to dig into it, but never do for a variety of reasons.

My latest excuse: I’m waiting for Scrivener 3 to come out for Windows. I’m good at creating distractions and (also, how do you pronounce Scrivener? Is it skriv-uh-ner or skryv-ner? See what I mean?) I have it for my Mac, but my intent is to work on things on a USB flash drive I can use to swap between the laptop and the desktop. Until I have the same software on both, though, I’m afraid something will get messed up in between.

A friend of mine asked me last night if the short story I’d had published would lead to anything bigger or not, and that’s really inspiring me to push forward with things once again.

So, I’m calling myself out now: even if I can’t get the actual project started, there’s no reason I can’t continue to outline and plan using Google Docs or something similar in the interim, right? Right.

So, here goes nothing.