I've been struggling for weeks now to mold this one character for a story I'm working on. She is giving me, trouble. Seriously. Every time I think I have a back story figured out, she decides it's not good enough, or it's too complicated. She needs to shut the hell up. I'm the writer here damn it. Then, just yesterday, the outfit I was wearing was perfect for her. So I jot down my general attire, and last night I have a dream about a girl wearing those clothes. I wake up for work this morning all happy and ready for work, still thinking about the dream, and continuing to develop a personality for this girl, and feeling pretty good. At 10:45, I know because I was looking at a clock, I realized why it was so easy to create her: Cause I based her on me.
So I scrapped that character and started work on an entirely different story. I refuse to be the author who writes the version of herself she sees in her head, into every story she writes. That girl is not nearly as interesting as I think she is.
Other things that have been happening: I made a cake bread, totally by accident. Well, the bread shape part of it wasn't really an accident. I was mixing a cake with the intention of making cake pops, but then for some reason I turned the oven on, and it was like 10 minutes later before I realized it, so I just went with it. Then I was going to make a sheet cake, but remembered that I have no pan for that, so I ended up just grabbing the loaf pan and greased that up for the batter.
At no point during this did I stop and think to myself, hey wait Storm. This is stupid. Completely stupid.
I also added too much flour. So now when I eat it, I just cut it in slices like it's bread and butter that shit up. It's actually pretty good.
I'm back on over nights next week at work. Except for that one day when I work at 5 am. I don't think they actually know what they're doing there. Not just in scheduling. I mean, in general I don't think they know what's going on. I'm not complaining about the over nights though. Normally, I totes would. But we still only have one car so our schedules not overlapping is really helping things out right now. Additionally, I'm not complaining because I get time and a half for the over nights. Or at least I'm supposed to. If I don't, I'm setting that place on fire.
