Any one who has followed this blog for a while will know that I am a master of procrastination and hardly ever keep to a pre-determined course. Obviously these tendencies have bitten me in the backside numerous times and I would (in theory) be happy to rid myself of them.
So. A story.
It wont be a good story and it will probably lose me most of the followers I have here. Still, if I can keep to true to this one project I will have defeated a small part of the worst faults in me.
About this story. I have been scribbling* for some four or five years now. I’m a serious scribbler. Every now and then I get an idea for a story and the sheer momentum of that idea propels me through the first three chapters at least. And then I begin to feel the cold dreaded hands of reality where plot consistency, character development, natural-sounding dialogues and fear of info-dumping become awful insurmountable difficulties.
I don’t know how many ideas I’ve started and abandoned this way, but I do know how many I’ve finished – FOUR.
And two of these were very short indeed.
So this particular story has no brilliant-in-that-moment idea driving it. It has no short-lived enthusiasm giving it its first five thousands words either.
This will be written cold. It will be an exercise, a duty, homework…all dreary words that attempt to crush my soul.
You probably wont like what I come up with. Fair warning.
I’m stashing all posts related to this story, tentatively called Vampire House , under “The Stories in My Head”. You’ll find it on the homepage, under the header.
*I say ‘scribbling’ because my ability to write will have to go through many stages of evolution yet, for me to start calling it ‘writing’.
Practice makes perfect.
Keep at it and you will make it. 
The fact you have finished four is a feat in itself. Writing cold will definitely give you opportunity to focus on skills, but don’t get too worried about being perfect or your story will stall out in those nasty revisionist cycles.
On the second chapter and already itching to go back and fix things. =\ Thanks for the encouragement! =)
Looking forward to seeing your fault-conquering scribbling
Heh, heh. Yeeeeah, let’s hope I can keep it up for a few weeks at least. *fingers crossed* =)