First Person

Well, much to my own surprise the writing continues largely unabated!

Which isn't to say I'm hacking out page after page, but I am managing to get a little bit of writing done every day... a couple hundred words here, a page or two there... and it's remaining interesting to me. Perhaps it's a method of procrastination (as it has often been), a way to avoid the work I've got to get done in preparation for school; either way, I'm creeping closer to the end of the chapter.

I'd forgotten how much I actually _like_ writing, as difficult and frustrating as it can be, sometimes. The current stuff is new for me as well. I've never tried writing from a first-person perspective before, and though I'm sure I'm doing a mediocre-at-best job of it, it's a nice change.

I shouldn't consider it wasted/procrastinated time, though. I'll be teaching two units in creative writing come... well, tomorrow... so it's good practice for me. I firmly believe a teacher should practice what he or she teaches. If I insist that the students write a creative piece from the perspective of, I dunno, the pair of shoes that Stanley throws over the bridge in the novel Holes, then I damn well better be able to write from an original perspective as well. So, yeah... writing fanfiction is research!

The most recent update was posted to Fanfiction.net yesterday, and hopefully it'll update soon. I won't post anything to the ML until I've done the whole chapter. Wonder if anyone'll care, after a two-year gap between posts?