After Hours
I wish I could say that I’m wide awake and pumped full of energy right now.
But let’s face it. It’s 4:22AM, I’m nearly 30 years old, and it’s 4:22AM.
I’m exhausted.
This sleepless night can be partly blamed on my playing Animal Crossing until 2:30, but after that, it was totally out of my control. Tonight was one of those nights where my stray thoughts before bedtime led me to contemplation of my short story. I thought I had it all plotted out and was planning on spending this week filling in gaps and fleshing out pages. I was wrong.
An idea at 3AM got me out of bed and frantically searching in the dark for a pen and notepad. (I’ve been very messy lately.) Jotting down notes until 3:30 left me unsatisfied. What else could I do but turn on the laptop and write? No matter how heavy my eyes felt, I knew my brain wouldn’t rest until I got it all out. I knew before I wrote that there would need to be parts edited from the first draft. And I thought that I might save those parts, and write two drafts. Compare, perhaps. Or possibly save my new ideas for my novel. But as Annie Dillard says in The Writing Life, “Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.”
What came to me must be used.
And now, that I’ve written what I needed to write and blogged what I needed to blog, I can sleep.
I hope.
I Don’t Get the Bit about Draco…
Can someone explain that to me?
Yeah, I tried to read slow, but I’m a naturally fast reader, okay? And besides, even though I finished it last night, I know there were millions of other people who had finished it way before I did.
Still… I need someone to explain the wand part to me. Maybe I read too fast and missed something. Or maybe I’m forgetting something from the previous books.
My arms are exhausted. I have a terrible habit of reading lying down. Developed from the time I learned to read, I think. So holding that enormous tome aloft has probably helped strengthen my triceps. (It did fall on me a couple of times. Surprisingly not as bad as the PSP clunking down on my ribcage, though.)
I suppose I should go watch movie 5 now.
