Spent the last week trying to write a short story. I don’t like that I can’t belt them out in a day, but I really should stop thinking about it and just focus on writing good stories instead of fast ones; maybe I can improve my writing since I’m moving slower.

Things started to finally flow faster on Sunday. Like cleaning out the pipes, I have to write for a while before things start to move. And usually the first couple pages are pure, black sludge that I just toss aside quickly.

Fluffy and I had a long talk on Sunday about creativity. Kind of fun, pointed out a few things. One of them is that I am still in college, doing it as night school, and I only have five weeks left. So… I should stop worrying about writing until after college.

Obvious, but I didn’t like the answer.

Still bouncing between wanting to write novels (GenCon is looming ahead for me, when I measure myself to other writers there) and computer games. I accidentally stumbled on some gorgeous RPG tiles that I could redo in SVG and a site with free (and nice sounding) game music. So, that naturally wanted me to write a computer game again.

It doesn’t help that I hit a small mental snag with world-building for Fedran. I got a hesitant map of the world created, but then got into a discussion of terrain verses plate tectonics. I created that map with a rough plate system but the terrain isn’t properly done. So, to figure out at least a partially correct system, I could do one of two things: 1) make it up, 2) learn enough about climate and meteorology sciences to write a program to calculate it for me.

Three guesses on which one I want to do? First two don’t count.