Cheklov's Stuff

So, screw this blog being a writing blog. It is 100% not working. Instead, I will focus on stuff that I actually, can, you know, be informative and helpful about. Also this happened:

Soooo....I'm back. Ish. Backish. Yeah, it's been a while, but since this is mostly for my own entertainment...eh, whatevs. So. Yeah, I don't know where I'm going with this things now, maybe more of a discussion than crawling around on my high horse and trying to make my opinions on how to write shit sound less pretentious than they feel. Since, you know, I really can't write for shit. But the shit I do write makes me happy, so, once again, whatevs. And yeah, Katz is still around. Surprisingly, Zappa (the black and white cat) did not horribly maim him. Katz: Fuck. Yes. Epic Mount. Me: You know you gets those at like, level thirty now. And you can play to level twenty for free. Katz: ... I said: FUCK. YEAH. EPIC MOUNT.

Inspiration to write is hella weird. It can jump out of nowhere and bite you in the ass, it can wake you up from a dead sleep going, "WTF? Where is my notebook?" Or, inspiration can abandon you completely. That really, really sucks. I've been lucky the last few years that, by the time NaNo rolled around, I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do. Execution is pretty terrible, but at the very least I like what I have and do enjoy the process. I go through a half-dozen plots every time, though. Some of them I still like, some of them are shelved permanently. A ton of them come from the Adopt-A-Plot thread on the NaNo forums, others come from watching movies, and some just pop up. What I'm trying to say, I guess, is know that it's always around. Don't shut inspiration out, or, more importantly, NEVER IGNORE IT. Doesn't matter how dumb you may think it sounds, it's always worth it to keep that idea. Even the silliest idea can be expanded into