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Remember When I Used to Write?

I think the Internet has ruined a lot of words but I’d like to think “obsessed” is at the top of the list (very top is “literally”), so I won’t discuss a “current obsession”.  What I will say is that I have completely consumed every currently available episode of The Bright Sessions podcast.

It’s a fiction podcast that follows Atypicals with special abilities as they speak with their therapist.  Think X-Men seeing a shrink.  But since it’s a podcast, it’s like (how I assume) those old school radio shows.  Little Orphan Annie (“Don’t forget to drink your Ovaltine”) or War of the Worlds or whatever the hell people listened to.

Anyway there’s 2 seasons worth of 15-20 minute episodes and I’ve binged them and now I have to wait for real time Season 3.  But it’s been my first scripted podcast and the voice actors are really good and at the end of S2 I was in my car yelling. “OMGOMGOMG.”

 

So it made me want to do something with fiction.  Remember that I used to dabble with fiction writing?  You’d have to have been here for a while.  But it was a thing.  I promise.  And maybe if I did it in bite-sized serialized sections it would be manageable.  The thing about fiction is that the characters sort of do what they want.  I could have all the plans and outlines in the world, but when you sit to type, the characters guide the way.  And not setting out to write an entire book but wanting to commit to more than just a short, I think I’m going to take a note from the podcast folks and work in episodes/chapters.

I’m not saying it will be regular and I’m definitely not saying I’m going to finish. But I have to write.  I feel bad for the characters that are just sitting in my head waiting for me to do something with them. And my abandoned drafts.   And to get away from worksuck.  And maybe I can call it NaNo prep.

Maybe.

Either way, I made Brownlee make a bloggy thingy.

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Also, anyone else listening to fiction podcasts?!  I think I need more.  Not mentally ready for audiobooks.

3 thoughts on “Remember When I Used to Write?”

  1. It is a fiction based blog were you can write what you imagine around you. This kind of writing vary from what you think to what you conclude. The entire phase is so beautiful and can increase your writing sense.

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