Faded Boxers

Obviously, I’ve temporarily run out of the funny juice and I guess this is a good a time as any to continue the story I started last year.

To those who are joining just know, I’m working on a short story that was inspired by a nightmare I had. What’s neat about said nightmare is that it pretty much finished the whole story before I woke up. That was a very considerate nightmare.

Since I felt it was an interesting enough story to flesh out, I started work on it a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, this is my first time to write something of this scope, and given my inability to focus on something for very long, or my inattention to detail, this feat is proving to be a Herculean effort for me. I even joined NaNoWriMo last year to light a fire under my ass. But I only got as far as 5000 words and stopped dead in my tracks.

So here I am, trying to continue my work, and am faced with the same brick walls I left untouched last year.

Breaking away from my practice of posting mainly finished articles on this blog, I’ve decided to chronicle my progress here in the hopes of getting into the practice of writing everyday.

With that out of the way, let me just say that I never realized how hard it is to write interesting dialogue for my characters. It would be so easy to just write everything as a narrative, but that can hardly give life to my characters. Sadly, since I don’t really interact with people apart from my wife and my coworkers on a daily basis, writing witty exchanges between characters who are supposed to be interesting is proving to be quite a challenge.

Anyway, if anybody’s interested in reading what I’ve done so far, feel free to drop me a message.