The well is no longer dry. In fact, my creativity has filled the well and exploded into the sky as a foaming geyser.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure that this well metaphor is going to work out.<\/p>\n
I am working again. With the commute rolled in, I’m putting in twelve-hour days. However, with the state of extended unemployment benefits up in the air in DC, not to mention the gestating parasite in my wife’s womb, I heartily welcome the paycheck and the insurance. The financial transition is a bit rocky, but couldn’t have come at a better time.<\/p>\n
As often happens when I regain employment, my creativity has switched back on. My urge to progress on Fight or Flight<\/a> came first, and I’ve gotten months worth of scripts written. I’m no longer panicked about its slow progress, which was a problem earlier in the year. It’s back to being fun.<\/p>\n The same urge is hitting me for The Glass Crown<\/span>, as well. It’s coinciding with filling up my current paper notebook, which has other implications. It’s a beautiful leather-bound book, imported from Italy, that I received on my first Father’s Day. It’s taken me two and a half years to fill its pages. Judging by the ratio of journal entries to fiction, becoming a husband (again), a stepfather, and a father was (and is) a rocky and emotional ride. Who knew?<\/p>\n Looking back through the pages of the notebook reminded me that I didn’t just want to finish the story in The Glass Crown. I liked what I read. I got into it. The characters didn’t have to be poked with a stick to come alive. They’re bounding around in my head all on their own. This pleases me to no end.<\/p>\n Motor City Mafia – and, really, Adam’s Name – feels content to wait its turn. I feel pulled to reconsider its original purpose – a fiction based role playing game – but I have no idea how I’d restructure it. I’ve got some time, though. Its time will come.<\/p>\n I still have hope for projects like Steven and Two Vampires. I still have my wife’s challenge to write a paranormal romance\/urban fantasy book, which Adam’s Name will probably turn into, or Two Vampires could, or I could write something totally new… I still have the Aztec spirit-based clanker story that I want to tell.<\/p>\n So, as long as this creative urge wants to stick around, I’ve got food for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The well is no longer dry. In fact, my creativity has filled the well and exploded into the sky as a foaming geyser. I’m not sure that this well metaphor is going to work out. I am working again. With … Continue reading