Writing is, for me, a compulsion. If I'm not writing, I'm probably telling myself a story. My mind is always busy with it. I like to tell people that it's essentially like running a boarding house in my brain. Characters are always running in and out. Sometimes they stop for tea, and I've only got a little while to talk to them into staying for a while (or to gently tell them that they're just not terribly interesting). Sometimes, they are permanent boarders. Characters run through the front door, flash me a smile, and are out the back before I've had a chance to learn a thing about them. It might sound strange, or even annoying, but I love it. I'm not a very lonely person, because I've always got an interesting story to hear, even if it's only coming from my own mind.
For a while, Phillip and Charles (and a couple of folks named Renee and Ryan that you haven't met yet) weren't speaking to me. I think they must have been miffed with me, because quite honestly the first draft of Pygmalion's first chapter was really godawful. I'm glad that I get this second chance with them now. Hopefully, they'll stick around, at least so long as I need them.
The next serial is coming on Monday! I can't wait to show it to you guys! You'll get to meet Renee in this one, and she is quite hard to not love.
By the way, everybody, as of right now, the only person following the blog through blogger is my mother, and as much as I love my mother, that's just depressing, so I would really appreciate it if everybody would just click the "follow" button. Have a nice weekend, everyone.
Thanks for reading!
-Gardiner
But I commented on Blogger. How do I follow on blogger?
ReplyDeleteThere's a little button in the top right corner that says "follow".
ReplyDeleteI'm following, too . . . so I don't know why I'm not showing up?
ReplyDeleteBut I like what you have to say about never feeling lonely. I'm the same way. How can we be lonely with all of these people in our heads?