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I'm not doing anything. My conscience won't let me watch a movie or play a video game, but I'm not writing. I'm giving little token efforts here and there and I'm piddling around online.

I've had an outline for my story since April of last year. (That's before I bought the house I'm living in.) I've updated it periodically, but the time has come to sit down and write it. Also, I kinda see how bad movies can get made. Writers feel they need to modify and modify and modify until they eventually overmodify. At which point, they end up keeping the bad ideas they ended up with rather than the good ideas that they started with. That's because fatigue has started to set in and they need to put out something.

I'm sure that bad books are the same way. It's just I'm more familiar with bad movies where I'll read trivia and think, "That's the idea they should have gone with." If I don't knuckle down and start writing, I'm going to become fatigued with this concept. Or else someone will put out a similar story before I do. There was a Disney film a year or two ago that made my heart skip a beat because I thought that they were going the same direction that I was with a story. I was grateful when I found out that wasn't the case. But maybe somebody else will stumble upon the same narrative that I have and publish it before I do.

I woke up at 4:30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep for an hour or so. I'm blaming it on that. I'm tired and lethargic. Yep, yep, yep. <_<