Composing a Novel but Losing a Mind
You know those old vaudeville jokes that start with “a funny thing happened on my way to…?” I have one, and it was a first time for me.
Just imagine a long day, evening meeting, too sleepy to type up what had been written that day. Probably sounds familiar, right? So I wrote about eleven pages longhand during the course of my day, which gives me a different connection to the story sometimes. The other piece of this puzzle is that I always ALWAYS fall asleep reading. And a funny thing happened to me on the way to sleep.
So I’m headed to bed and I get happy about reading this new story. It’s the story about the girl in Milwaukee that has a special skill. Haven’t heard of it? Sure you have if you’ve been on my NaNoWriMo page.
I really wanted to find out what happened next.
I sit down on the bed to set the alarm and glance around for the book I want to read. Of course, I don’t find it. That’s when it dawns on me.
I’m looking to read the book I’m currently writing.
I hope I’m not the only one this has ever happened to!
This happens to me too!!!
Even Fred Karno would have been ashamed to use that old gag…
Yes, it has happened to me, though not quite the same thing. A few years ago (when I still had time to play a lot of games) I hunted around my collection for the one which had the cool zombies that exploded when shot.
It took me an hour or so to realize it was the tech demo I had uploaded a few days earlier. Brains like swiss cheese…
I’m glad I’m not alone. I can really relate to the brains like swiss cheese, though.