Two months ago I was spending a lot of time in airports. In the span of two months, I spent three weeks flying between Salt Lake City, UT, and Nashville, TN. (For once) I won’t bore you with the details of why. Later, I’m sure.

I discovered a couple of things during this series of flights: which airlines are most tolerable (Frontier) and which aren’t worth the price (Delta). I also discovered Viral Video. I’m not new to online socializing – I met my spouse online and we’ve known each other for 11 years. We’re celebrating our eight anniversary at the end of this month. I was completely confounded by this new brand of online networking, though. Which is funny, because I’m like an old school Yoda of navigating old school social sites.

Thought you’d get away without having to hear the personal information at all today, didn’t you? Sorry about that. ^_^

Anyway, the concept of viral fascinates me. And yesterday when people on Facebook started linking to this, I was completely enthralled. Now that it’s been revealed that it was a hoax, I’m even more fascinated. I will sit here and ponder for days what it takes to intentionally come up with something viral.

And…I have inspiration for a story, and I’ve been wanting that. I’m almost certain it’s been done before, but I’m going to do it differently. I have to. I feel ideas starting to flutter and I have to pursue this to the end…or at least to a reasonable stopping point.

As an aside, Kate Larkindaleis getting past a similar block. I’m personally a fan of her work and can’t fathom writing anything so eloquant and literary. But I’m also always amazed that things like writer’s block, inspiration, depressive funks, seem to affect my writer friends at the same times they hit me. It’s cosmic…or we’re all just a bad influence on each other. I wonder if that could be part of my story…hmm…

Viral.