Random: Liminal chickens

I don't doubt this has already made the rounds, but I only met it today:

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road (Neo-Pagan Style)

I found Margot Adler's insights particularly ... NPResque. Share and enjoy! :-)

Personal Note: Nulla dies sine linea!

I'm writing again. And it's going to be a (fanfiction) novel.

I'm trying not to think too hard about that second sentence. I've only ever managed to complete one novel-length narrative (in plot terms -- in page count it was a long novella; in polish, a draft) and that was eons ago, in high school, when I had much lower expectations for my prose. I've had ideas for novels and made notes for them and even drafted scenes and the odd chapter, but I've almost always lacked the discipline to finish up.

But.

I have this one completely plotted in outline. I've got a preliminary chapter list (10, plus prologue and epilogue). I've written the entire prologue in real words. I've followed that up immediately with a draft of the first scene of chapter one. The characters are talking to me, giving me detailed notes for future scenes. The only thing I need to do is keep writing.

Eep. Help. I'll never make it!

It's so easy not to write, y'see. I can spend hour after pleasant hour blocking scenes in my imagination, watching the mental movie, fast-forwarding through the tedious exposition and set-up to the exciting bits. Actually planting myself on the couch with pen and paper (initial draft) or at the desk with the keyboard (from draft to real words) is WORK. I work all day. Doing more in the evening seems ... difficult. Tiresome. Bletcherous.

That said, once I get on a roll, I can crank out the pages -- at least for now. It's the honeymoon phase, when the inspiration is hot and the words are malleable. Which is why I'm adopting Pliny's motto and trying my darndest to produce at least a line a day, regardless of what else I have to do. I'm also trying to keep it in sequence, rather than jumping around. I don't know if that'll help in the long run, but I'm thinking that if I can post each chapter once the next one has made it out of draft, I might develop an audience. And having a responsibility to a reader or three might push me to complete an actual, card-carrying, novel-length 'fic.

Or not. I dunno. But I'm gonna try.