Last night I went to bed at about 11. About two and a half hours later I woke up with the burning desire to write something. Normally I would roll over and go to sleep but this time I was afraid that if I did do that I’d lose it. It was a new beginning to Blood Bound, and I like it. It takes the basic idea, the sentence of “I didn’t believe vampires were real until my brother came home from one of the undead” and expands on it. It’s a lot smoother, and it brings forward the voice and the setting much better than the original draft.
What I have also been up to, besides working on The Circled Green, is making playlists. Helps me organise my thoughts a lot, which is cool. Right now the character focus has been on Lauren, and here’s one of the songs.
It’s Vampire by Xandria.
So would you kiss the sun goodbye
And give your life to never die?
I love when that happens. I keep a notebook and pen beside my bed just because of it. I’ve gotten quite a few characters and plot beginnings from waking up at 2am.
The best ideas usually pop up at night, that’s my experience. I always have my macbook beside my bed, just in case. (I’m too scatterbrained for actually writing my ideas down.. I’ll have forgotten more than half of it by the time I begin to write)
Oh, and I really like that song by Xandria! Even though I prefer the India album as a whole to the Salome one
@Marieke: I prefer India (and Ravenheart) as a whole to Salome, but Vampire is one of my fave songs of theirs overall.