I know that it was a mistake to fall asleep at 7 o'clock
last night. I know I will regret it this afternoon when I've been awake since 2
o'clock in the morning. However. The hours between two and six were not a
complete waste. I did not spend them, much as I might have been tempted,
falling down the rabbit hole of Reddit or YouTube. I did something productive
beneath the light of my brand-new desk light.
I have always known
that I wanted to write a book that started with an expletive, and I've toyed
with it a few times over the years since I had that idea, but I never spent more than a few minutes thinking about it.
Last night/this morning as I lay awake, I saw the first
scene in my head, I heard the words on the page and I jumped up to stumble (it was two in the morning) to my desk. I
know how it begins, which is only slightly better than knowing how it all ends.
I needed a name for my character and suddenly Mina existed.
She is running from someone and suddenly Tharin existed.
I don't know who these characters are yet, or what story
awaits them. I wonder if Mina will be anything like her literary namesake. Unfortunately
they are in a long queue of ideas for books and stories so it may be some time
before I can discover the answers. For
now. Time to go to the job that pays the bills.
YAWN!
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