Wednesday
Mid-week. And a self-induced short week, at that. Life is good. Surely, Providence smiles upon me.

And now, we return you to your regularly scheduled LiveJournal post…

Even though I’ve mentioned this umpteen times already: I enjoy good writing. The rediscovery of this revelation came, as it so often does, from last week’s comics and episodes of X-Men: Evolution and Justice League. Even though the sources are somewhat divergent, they share a trait: The plots contained stories that were more or less contained within the given issue/episode, but they also had elements that develop larger multi-issue/episode story arcs.

Something else that I enjoy is finding that a small, seemingly irrelevant detail in a story winds up being an important part in advancing to overall arc. Sometimes, you can see it coming. Other times, you find that it has been biding its time and amassing a power and life of its own until suddenly it leaps out of the shadows to stand ominously before you. Were the signs there all along? If you had been wary, would you have noticed it before it reached fruition?

I hope to be able to correctly employ these techniques in my writing. Umm… when I finally get back to writing, that is. While keeping this journal updated has been good practice at maintaining something of a writing schedule, it’s not quite the same thing. Hmmm. I shall write today! I’m not sure what it will be, I don’t even know how much I’ll write, but something, other than a journal entry, will be written today.

Peace.