Yes, yes – I know it says “for a grey SATURDAY” and today is, in fact, Monday. I wrote this Saturday and intended to post it then, but then was notified about my Major Award, so this post got bumped…

So here we are, a grey, soon-to-be-rainy Saturday, and I’m feeling a tish inspiration-less, blog-wise. I had a GREAT fiction writing day yesterday. Nearly 4000 words flew out of me in a relatively short amount of time, on two different novel ideas – hooray! – plus I got a slew o’ things done around the house, so all in all a tres productive day. As a result, I’m sort of in a creative writing-ish mood. Which means, lucky readers, you are going to get some random writing from me today. Hooray, she said!

I have these ongoing novels in my head, so didn’t want to separate my brain from them by writing other fiction. So I went through my list of writing exercises gleaned from the magical Internet, as well as my list of blog-topics-for-a-rainy-day and, even though today is in fact rainy (it started while I was writing), none of them jumped off the page. So I said to myself, “Self, what on earth will we do that is creative-ish and interesting both to me and to other people?” And Self replied. Yes, it is a sad but true fact that I do actually talk to myself, out loud. I also respond to myself. Yes, I am more than a little crazy – what was referred to as “touched” back in the day. Sigh. Although, as my friend Grip used to say “my neuroses are what make me interesting” – and dear lord I hope that’s true!
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