Have you ever...?

Have you ever been listening to some music, and then felt completely inspired by a feeling? Maybe not even music, but if you've been reading something, watching something, experiencing something, and then you get a feeling, and somehow that feeling is something that inspires you so much you can't really express it? Or repress it, as it turns out.

I was listening to some music, and now I have over a thousand words for a new novel ("edit": I actually took a break while writing this post, and am now done with the first chapter, and have 1875 words...heheh). I've decided to make this one sort of episodic, and I won't write it with any sort of outline. At all. Ever. If it's going to have a plot, the plot will happen on  its own, and I'll have to keep it all in my head. If I finish the draft of it, which might be nice but not at all required, I'll probably go into a more detailed editing phase, and go with an outline in order to fill in plot holes.

But for now, I'm just going to be writing on instinct, or, as the Great and Honorable Chris Baty (my hero) says, writing by the seat of my pants. And it's going to be a pants-kicking novel, lemme tell you that, Chris. :D

(Speaking of which, I really need to bug my friend to give me back my copy of No Plot, No Problem. Every month or so, I feel like I REALLY need to read it, if not only because I associate Chris Baty's awesome voice (both in writing and literal voice) with NaNoWriMo, and I think I'm going into withdrawal. So I need to read it, since it's like all his pep talks/news blotter blots/podcasts rolled into one pants-kicking book. Dammit, I want that book back right now!)

So, basically, it's called Travels Through Dreamland (AKA Dreamland). It's about a young man named Robert and a young woman named Tawny (who is actually a goldfish, but still with the same name) exploring dreams. Each chapter is them going to a new dream. Robert takes notes.

And that's about all I have. I suppose it could either be seen as a series of shorts or, if I feel like it, have an arcing plot that goes through all the dreams...or something...nehhh.

I just wanna write some sort of good-feelings-y book. I think. That's the feeling I'm working off, anyway. :) But we'll see. My goal is to not have anybody die this time around. We don't want another Jamie, now do we? :P

Anyway, I hope to continue with this novel. Then I'll really start working on Urban Myth and Eternal Flame (or Triptych or Hitchhiker Cat or whatever I'll be doing for Script Frenzy) once I have some time to actually concentrate. Or not. We'll see. I just really want a break from the Highness/Urban/Eternal world. It's sort of exhausting dealing with those characters, even if I love them to pieces. They like to hang out in my mind. Me, Matt, and Sissy are tight. Which is good, seeing as I've made a promise to myself to get Urban Myth published.

So I'll write that one. I will. I actually, truly, really will. I might just want to write Dreamland first. It's more relaxing than Urban Myth will be, anyway.

I think.

Probably.

:D

(Oh yeah - and I've added two more goals to my master list. :P They are under the creativity section - I realized I didn't really have any journaling goals! Journaling is very important to me, and it's become a part of who I am, but I really want to make a big, big, big goal for that. So I added these two:

- Write 3650 journal pages (0/3650) (This is basically ten year's worth of journal pages assuming I do a page-a-day thing, which I won't.)

- Do a PeJoWriDa (Personal Journal Writing Day), where I take the day and write 50 pages of a journal in one day)