Learning Spawns

Ever since the reading I've been tired. I mean it wasn't the reading as such. It was more the massive high point of my birthday party, followed by the stress of reading, combined with a bunch of really late nights and on top of that, work being a bit of a pig. I felt drained and as a result my writing practice was going nowhere. The ideas just weren't flowing. I needed something to dislodge them and restore the stream. I thought that was going to be a good nights sleep but that didn't help. The thing that ended up getting me going again was a textbook. What? Yeah. One those textbooks. One I've been struggling to read since October. The chapter was all about the three act structure and just looking at those various chunks (and trying to work out how my own work fit them) changed something. I guess it was like an association game. I ended up with a step outline for what could be a three to four thousand word short story.

So yeah. Onward once more!