Writing Day

I scheduled myself for the day off and planned on spending the day writing the proposal for an SCE story for Pocket, pulling together the notes and notecards and making some sense of them.

It didn’t happen.

A work situation loomed. The regional was in the area, and could I come by the store 2-ish? I showered hastily, grabbed my notebook, and went into work.

But nothing came of the visit. And with hours to fritter away, I grabbed a legal pad, pulled a story outline out, and started scribbling text.

Seven-hundred fifty words.

The text has the right feel–a shaggy dog feel, the sort of story told in a bar to an incredulous audience. The bit of the story I have down, though, I don’t see surviving to the final draft. It’s too far off-tangent from where the story will ultimately go. It makes for interesting backstory, though.

And I think I have the narrator’s voice right. I “hear” Jeremy Brett behind the words.

Let’s see if I can get this done in a week.

Published by Allyn

A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.

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