Sometimes, the best place to write, or at least sketch<\/i>-write, is on the subway.<\/p>\n
It’s a captive place. There’s not much else to do. It’s easy to whip out a notepad and pen and jot down ideas.<\/p>\n
Lately, my head has been in a specific place. It’s working out a story.<\/p>\n
It’s a depressing story, actually.<\/p>\n
The outline I was working on needs a rethink. Some things were right, some things were wrong.<\/p>\n
I’ve “seen” some scenes in my mind.<\/p>\n
I sketched out one today on the subway. Two notebook pages of dialogue. No real setting, though I know<\/i> the setting. I can “see” how it works.<\/p>\n
There’s some technobabble. But mainly it’s working out a problem the characters face, as they answer the question of what something is<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I like it. I like the feel.<\/p>\n
It is, though, depressing in its own way.<\/p>\n
The pieces are coming together.<\/p>\n
The story I “see” in my mind isn’t dark. The story isn’t tragic. Rather, there’s an undercurrent of sadness to it.<\/p>\n
Bad things happened. Really<\/i> bad things. And bad things will<\/i> happen.<\/p>\n
Yet, I “see” where it’s going. In the end, it’s not depressing at all. Because things will<\/i> get better.<\/p>\n
I like what wrote out today. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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