Still here, still plugging away.

Keeping up on my promise to make sure I'm posting at least a couple times a week - so here I am. I think going forward I'll do two things: one, status update, and two, horseshit of potentially personal or random nature. If all you care about is that I'm still alive and writing, you can ignore everything after the next paragraph.

Act 2 Prologue is coming along nicely. Google Docs tells me I'm around 4k words right now, so probably about 1/3 to 1/2 done (the Act 1 prologue was a bit meatier than the main story chapters, and I'll continue the trend). It's all mapped out, and I already know how it all goes, so really it's just fleshing out the bones and re-reading it a dozen times after that to figure out if it has the impact I want it to. Maybe this week if I get a big honking block of time with some inspiration in it. I'm staring at the manuscript right now, actually, wondering if I have some mental flexibility to blow on some horse words.

For the horseshit part, I get my best ideas in the shower. I really don't get that. I mean, okay, sure, you're in a zero-brain state so it can go wandering, I get that part, but there are plenty of times when you're in a zero-brain state. On the can, for instance, or just before you go to sleep, or after a glass or three of wine. Why the shower? Am I in such an altered state when I'm getting clean that my brain has to partially disconnect from reality in order to cope? And why does it have to happen in the one place I literally can not bring anything with me to write it down?

Maybe it's my shampoo.