Which is nothing like Good Friday, because *deletes any traces of religious commentary and moves on*

^_^

In case you hadn’t heard (or just didn’t care, I love the rain; it’s really not a secret. This morning when I woke up, my bedroom was flashing. Not some obnoxious strobe effect thing, just subtle twinges here and there. It took me a couple of minutes to realize it was an electrical storm outside my window. Which was awesome cool to watch/wake up to.

I pushed my butt out of bed, stumbled downstairs, and then heard thunder. Cool, not an electrical storm after all, maybe it would pretend to rain again. And then about 2 minutes later, the hail started. It was loud, it was stunning, and it woke up and terrified the cats. And then it turned into pouring rain. The sun tried to come out about three hours ago. The rain clouds have since vanquished it.

This is the day I wait for all summer (I hope) – the day when it rains the entire day, the sun never comes out, and fall starts to conquer the heat. In honor of this (hopefully) momentous day, I will not assault people with my opinions about how and why I write.

Because…on the way to work this morning I was inspired. Aggrivated, because no one knows how to drive in the rain and it turned a 25 minute commute (including an unneccessary but very much wanted) detour for coffee, into a 45 minute commute. But it didn’t matter. I was staring at the sky, waiting for them to get my coffee right (toffee mocha, not cafe mocha, *noms*), and a song came on the radio (okay,the usb stick) and I was inspired.

For almost two months now (or one month? I’ve lost track) I’ve had this novella idea that I’ve wanted to write. Every few days my brain feeds me a little more of the plot and characters, but never enough to get anything on paper. The thing that’s been bugging me the most…the reason I haven’t written it…is the ending. There are multiple possible endings but they all had flaws up until now. They were too convenient or cliche or didn’t show any character growth or took away the entire arc of the story…and it was driving me nuts.

*tangent alert
I play an MMORPG called Mabinogi. I am 110% addicted to this game, because 1 – I get to make cute anime characters (I have a couple of sexy guys and a cute girl elf and a stunning girl giant), and dress them up in the brightest, most colorful clothing I’ve ever seen in any game. And I like the combat system. Oh, and I have a moderately powerful character which means I can pretty much go anywhere I want on the map.

I quit the game for three months. Because I can’t stand 99% of the people who play it. I know, I play a massively multi-player online game, and can’t stand the other players. Go figure. There are a couple of characters in game who drive me ultra nuts. They’re so…pathetic. 17-20 year old boys with no social skills or graces, who appear to have been raised by their older sisters. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but…

…/tangent

I realized today that one of my main characters needs the same personality traits as these children I don’t play well with. All so she can figure out by the end of the story that it’s not an effective way to live life, and overcome it.

And the proverbial sun parted the clouds just as the real sun vanished behind them, and I knew how to write my story ^_^

YAY!