I came up with a new story idea yesterday. And my creative brain flat refused to cooperate with any more revision on Rockets until I agreed to write it down. The creative brain does not care that I’m on a deadline and I’m not supposed to be fooling around with new stories. I let it have its way in the end, because we both know that if creative brain isn’t happy, logical brain will be out of business before long. If you want to have a good, long bout of writer’s block, go ahead and let logical brain dictate to your creative brain.
As soon as I started a story file for the new project and jotted down the core of the idea, creative brain produced another big chunk of revision, all smiles.
What’s the new idea? The working title is Alienville, subject to change without notice. And it may or may not grow up to be a full-fledged story. Not all ideas do. But this one really seems strong, given that I was completely shut down for 24 hours until I agreed to commit the idea to paper. Creative brain seems to think this one is really important.
But my daily dose of revision is now done, and in record time, and I’m going to go have an eggnog latte as a reward.
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