Maybe I'll use this LJ after all

I don't know. Parenthetically Speaking is my main venue and I don't really want to detract from it.

Well, I was just falling asleep last night when I had this IDEA for a story, based a little bit on the whole human-in-an-alien-zoo/experiment story I did called "It's the Smell", and came up with a bunch of stuff for it, and then fell asleep while thinking to myself: if I forget this overnight I'm really going to be annoyed with myself for not getting out of bed and writing this down.

Ahem.

So, naturally I couldn't remember it when I got up this morning. And lo, I was annoyed.

Until I opened up the story "It's the Smell", just in the course of noodling around and it aaaaallll came back to me! Yaaaaay!

I won't tempt the gods like this next time. I'll get out of bed and write it down.

I was bitching on the phone with my folks Sunday night about how I'm not feeling very creative right now (my father died last month), so even though I've done some editing -- got names for everyone and every place in the novel, except for that one tribe -- I just wasn't coming up with ideas for anything. And here, I'm going to be doing this workshop thing in another week. How the hell am I going to hold it together for a whole week with strange people *and* actually *write*? Aigh!

And then I forced myself to just come up with some stuff. Just shut up, already and come up with a plot you think is stupid. It's all right.