What I Think About

Yesterday somebody asked me if I was still planning on doing the stop-motion video that I started back in September.

“Yes,” I thought, “Just as soon as I have a free moment!”
And that’s kind of the truth of the matter. I have about fifteen different projects in the air simultaneously… short stories, books, audio stories, and this stop-motion thingy… but no time to work on basically anything aside from school work these days.

That’s not completely fair: I also do a fair amount of reading as a matter of course. Can’t be a good writer if you don’t do a lot of reading. I’m hopeful that I can crush through about a dozen books before the summer hits… I have seven on my “To Read” pile right now.

But I’m always thinking about my stories. Always. Always thinking about a way to get a plot point across more clearly, or a clever bit of dialogue, or if I should cut a scene or add another somewhere. Dialogue takes up a lot of my brainspace. I’m always thinking about how somebody sounds when I write them. Can I hear their voice? Would I recognize it in a crowd?

Ah well. Maybe I’ll have time to finish up another chapter on the cyberpunk story this week, and then I can spend some time on my stop-motion stuff in a week or two. We’ll see!

Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!