This blog is not to serve as some revolutionary piece of writerly inspiration. Far from it. Others have most likely said what I've said in better ways.
Artists do a lot of sketching. Artists do a lot of character studies. Artists do a lot of line experimentation.
Typically, monsters get summoned, songs are sung, and a good deal of mead gets drank. In fact, all of those things happened.
So the Winter Break is at an end, the chaos of the holidays is over, and I got sick in Disneyland. Was it worth it? Absolutely.
I've lost days, DAYS, of writing because the first sentence I wrote wasn't what I imagined.
Anyway, here's a blog post I pulled from a sticky note I wrote a few weeks back.
However, as I write, and during the quiet hours of the day in between my students, story ideas pop up in my mind. Nuggets of a potentially larger tale.
Fifth Draft 