How do you make a journal enjoyable? I mean, most of what I want to do is write science fiction. So, why am I writing this journal if I am writing science fiction? I suppose it comes down to wanting to get words on paper. I have a fairly clever idea, but I am balancing the forces of going by the seat of my pants and detailed outlines because I know that detailed outlines break down for me. Quickly. But I also know that they help me get started. So, I do not know where the balance lies. I have gotten a fairly promising idea; it’s a cyberpunk-ish idea. Um, but I do not know, I think it might be fun. I wonder sometimes if it is a little too much like. Uh, the old Max Headroom show. But you know, I do not know. Certain aspects show that. Inspire me, but I do not know. You can take Max’s Headroom. Then, take some Blade Runner and put it in the blender. It might be interesting. I am also wondering if there needs to be a supernatural element to it. That would throw things off in a cyberpunk setting.
So, what are the interesting things about going by the seat of your pants? Well, um. I suppose Stephen King does it. Uh, he starts the story with an interesting idea, lets it flow from one page to the next, and never looks back until the book is done. It is interesting that you can go by the seat of your pants. And. it is interesting that you can go by the seat of your pants and still know when your story is over or plan for it to be over in three months. Or however long it takes to write something. Dean Koontz says that he. Oh, right, from 9:00 in the morning until 5:00 at night and in the afternoon. I am unsure I can keep that pace up, but I do not know; I might. It has been a little while since. Oh, it has been a little while since I got a draft written. But it has not been that long. Uh, I have been doing plenty of editing. Uh, you know, it is time for me to get started on a new composition. I am tempted, strangely enough, to fight by the seat of my pants in the morning. Then, follow that up with 1,000 words in an outlined story. I do not know if that would work. Umm. I do not know whether it would drive me up the wall to work on two things or if it would. If one would benefit from the other or end up being a part of the same story, what would happen with all that text? Is it worth a try? I am not sure.
What would you do? If you were starting a new story, there are so many choices. I mean when you’re. Drafting a story that you could, you know, first person, second person. Uh. A part of me would like to author an entire book in the second person, but I’m not writing Choose Your Own Adventures, so that’s probably not going to happen. Um, I still know a story. There are three parts: the first is in the first person, the second is in the second person, and the third is in the third person. I might put that book together eventually. Um. I am also trying to ensure I get some journal going. Hmm, and that I publish more often on my website than I do. Uh, it is not something that I do. I have a problem with it. Well, that is not true. I have a problem with it. Uh, I have a. I get to. I get into a rut. And uh. I’ll go for months and not actually publish anything on the website, but there is a part of me that would like to write a kind of informal things and get them up, and there’s also a part of me that would like to straight up post, uh, pages from. Ah, my books. And. Um, that part scares me because, uh, you know, I want people to buy the books. But sometimes you must put in your work. Out for free. Just to let people know who you are. So, I am working on that. Will I publish some of my pages? And how many? Of them, and for what reason? I am still working all that out.
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