Random Babble

What is a blog for if not the random babble of the blogger? I realize I haven't given a substantial update in quite a while. Sorry for that.

I've thought a lot about my writing. I miss it. I'm just really busy doing a lot of nothing these days. Sounds contradictory? Well, yes, but it's true.

Someone once reviewed one of my stories and said something along the lines of I wasn't a real author unless I made an outline of my story before I began to write. That outraged me at the time. Now, I look back and reflect. Yeah, it still pisses me off. But outines are helpful. I have a tendency of making stories and then writing as I go. Thus, I'm left in the middle of a story with no idea where the hell I'm going. But hey, for me, it's half the fun.

The only story I am 110% sure where it is exactly going (and we're talking absouletely sure here, people, all the way down to the final scene of the final chapter) is Saga. Ironic, isn't it? I've spent so much time brainstorming on it that it has become my baby. I have notebooks filled with ideas for it. I know what's going to happen. Yet I can't find the time to update. And I know why. Because I know where I am going (and how I'm going to get there) I want to take my time to write. I won't settle for anything less with it. The entire story up till the last chapter where Lola and Michael meet was just the intro. My dear friends, this story began with the long chapter. It may only have like 4 (?) or 5 (?) more chapters, but they are long.

Anyways, I guess my babble bubbles down to this: Writing comes in all ways. Who is to say someone isn't a writer just because they don't go through a certain process? Different things work for different people.

To those few souls who still read this between my sporadic (at best) updates: Bless you. ;)