Writing

I have a bunch of things bouncing around in my head lately. I've been paying attention to the Proposition 8 trial. Work has been pretty crazy. I've been playing WoW, though not as much as I want to. The dogs have kept me busy. My ESO and I have been trying to watch some anime (Crying Freeman FYI). I've also been doing a fair amount of reading.

Since I'm actually kind of stressed from some of the above I've been using the rest of the above to do my usual escapism thing. Hence the reading and WoW and anime. As is usual with my escapism I've also been adding to the stories in my head. That might sound a little crazy. Perhaps it is. /shrug

But what I really mean is that I've actually been trying to write down some of the stories that I tell myself. Some of these stories are about my WoW characters. I've written the easier WoW stories down and am in the process of putting them out for people to see. If you want to you can find them. I warn you: I'm not that great a writer, I'm working on it, but I harbor no illusions as to my current level of skill.

I'm also trying to add to the other stories in my head. The ones I've had there for years. See, a long time ago I was told that the best way to get yourself to sleep was to tell yourself a story once you were lying down to sleep. In theory you'd get into the habit of falling asleep as soon as you got to a certain part of the story, and it would basically be self hypnotism. Well, it didn't quite work that way for me. Either I didn't get the memo that you were supposed to use a story that you already knew or it wasn't made clear that the goal was to sleep at a certain part. So whenever I have trouble sleeping I add to a story. Maybe I add more plot to the end, or perhaps I refine the characterization in the beginning. Either way these stories have been in my head for years and years now. I've written parts of them down, and I'm trying to write more. But since most of my work on them happens just before I go to sleep it's hard to remember the changes I want to make.