I’ve always been confused by the way dance instructors insist on counting from the middle: “5,6,7,8!”
Whenever they do that, I’ll be all like “Wait, wait. What happened to ‘1,2,3,4′? Did I miss something? The flyer said that this was the first day. But if you’re starting from ‘5′ then I must have missed something. I don’t think I’m going to learn to do the Cha-cha if I don’t know the basics.”
Then I ripped off my leg warmers and stormed out of the studio.
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.
Ever notice when you’re with some people and someone they know comes over to chat with them, you act as if that person is invisible simply because you’ve never been introduced to each other yet?
The funny thing is, both of you act surprised when you are finally introduced to each other. Like it’s the world’s biggest secret that there was another person standing there all along. It’s as if we, as strangers, are invisible to each other and only our friends are the only ones who can see us. Continue reading ‘I’m sensing a disturbance in The Force’
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