Before going to sleep last night, I sketched out the details to write new installments to a few different stories that I published online recently. Serializing them seems like the perfect solution for me, especially since I seem to like writing things that are pretty open-ended. It will give me a chance to practice working through large story-arcs, as well as pacing through individual installments. Plus it sort of helps me to imagine them as issues in a comic book series, I think. It’s like a very concrete form for them to take in my imagination.

I’m having an absolute ball writing these stories lately. I’ve not had much luck writing fiction before this, but all of a sudden I feel ready, and everything’s just flowing. I was gonna say, flowing out of me, but it’s much more like it’s flowing through me. From where or why is not that important to me. What’s important is that it’s really invigorating. I mean, I’m at the point where I’m writing, that it feels almost exactly the same way as it does when I’m reading a good work by somebody else. My response to it is the same, because I don’t know where it’s going, but like to feel all the dynamic vibrations it creates within me.

It’s made me become more aware too, that reading someone else’s work involves a kind of “co-creative process,” where you take what they wrote and bring it to life. It’s almost as though the only difference between reading and writing, when you get down to it is that when you’re writing, the next page is blank, instead of full of words. All you have to really do though, is listen to what those words are, and then write them down.

Anyway, I wrote a second installment to one piece already: