What pours out of me is stuff that is highly influenced by 30s and 40s pulp serial novels. Half stream of though, half thought out things. I've contemplated numerous times of starting up a site for such an outlet, getting out an 80-page story a month with the ubiquitous cliff-hanger ending to lead up to next month's post.

I just need a catchy name…

This is true: writing is always easier (and better) when you're doing it for both an audience and a purpose. They taught us that back in high school. (Now they teach it in primary school.)

The whole thinking behind the #oneaday project (which, entertainingly, the creator abandoned quite quickly, only for many others to take up the slack) is to write just for yourself, and if other people dig it, great. Not everything you write will be great. But the self-discipline side of things is really important, because otherwise you can start writing in a flurry of excitement, tail off, give up and never be able to get back to it. That's what's happened to all my previous stories – something made me lose interest and I've never gone back since. If I can take what I've learned from the last 73 days and apply it to writing something that actually has a purpose (and an implied audience) – I think that could work.

We'll see, I guess. Call it my own personal NaNoWriMo.

Not really.

For me, there's something energizing about writing FOR a person or group of people that brings out the best out of me. Maybe I should take that bit of insight and put it to better use. 🙂