In which I ponder possibilities

I wasn't going to do this today. I was this close to not doing this. I'm tired, I feel really sick to my tummy, and I have to be up early for this class thing. But then I thought, you know, that's exactly when I have to write- when I don't really wan't to. If I can write when I don't want to, I'll be able to write when I do want to as well. And then the books will get written, the money will roll in, and I'll get the standard rich-and-famous contract just like Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie. Well, ok, at least the books will be written. The rest is my daydream, since I need to have those, especially the part where the money rolls in....

I may have said this before, but I want to say it again now. I was talking to a friend who said that there were many times he thought he'd write something, but then thought "Who would want to read that?" and then saw someone selling a ton of books based on a very similar idea. And I think the key is to write what speaks to you. Don't worry so much about who wants to read it when you start- you can worry about that when it's done and you are revising. I'm thinking of stuff like the YaYa Sisterhood book, which was presumably written in a week or something like that. I haven't read it--it doesn't speak to me--but it obviously did speak to a lot of people or it wouldn't have been so popular. So no matter how dumb you think an idea is, it's worth getting it down. Because you never know--once it is down, it can go somewhere. If it never makes it out of your head, you guarantee nobody will read it. And even if you think it's dumb, maybe others won't. And even if they do, what have you really lost? You don't write, you don't have a popular book. Your book bombs, you don't have a popular book. The first is a guarantee. The second, a possibility.

I am trying to figure out if this particular blog qualifies for the NaNoBlogMo blog list. I do not intend to put the book here, though I'll put snippets, and word counts, and bright or not so bright ideas that aren't part of the running text, I expect. And I am thinking I should post "sentence of the day" or something like that. Just to mark the progress and evolution of the beast. I know a couple of my faithful readers are doing NaNo- are you folks planning to join the Blogspot NaNoWriters? I have mixed feelings and probably won't, but maybe if everyone else does, I'll reconsider.

Haven't made much substantial progress today on the thinking. I'll have train time tomorrow and this weekend, though. I make a lot of progress on the train. There's something magical about trains and the things that all that passing scenery does to your mind. The rythym against the tracks, I think, lulls you into that highly creative alpha-state. Or to sleep...

Ok, that's enough. I'm a minute short, but hey, I showed up. Ninety-nine percent of success is just showing up, I hear.