4,000 words in two days, and the universal law of awkwardness

Yep.  4,000 words in two days–2,100 yesterday for the wormhole story, and 1,900 today for The Lost Colony.  Both stories are progressing very, very well.  It’s a lot of fun to write in them both.

Yesterday I wrote this scene in The Wormhole Paradigm where the two characters go into and come out of cryo, and that was just really fun.  Talking about how going into cryo-hibernation is like death, and how coming out of it is this really painful experience.  I don’t know, but it was way fun.

Today I wrote this one scene in The Lost Colony, which I may end up taking out or significantly shortening, since a lot of the info is redundant, but after about an hour of writing I finished the scene, checked the wordcount, and wow!  Nearly 1,900 words!

I’m finding that as The Lost Colony comes to a close, it’s actually getting easier and easier to write.  I have an idea what the ending will be, but scenes still pop up as I’m writing and surprise me.  There is a lot of action now, and I feel that I have a handle on these characters, even though I’ll probably have to go back and characterize them better at the beginning.  I can see how it’s going to come to an end and I’m eager to get there!

And now, to close this post, a little bit about what I call the universal law of awkwardness.  Have you ever noticed that when you like someone in a non-platonic way, weird things happen when you’re around them?  I’m not talking about how you feel or anything–I mean that you start dropping things or bumping into things (or bumping into each other), or just other general clumsiness.

It seems that there’s just this law of the universe that the net clumsiness of a pair of people is inversely proportionate to the level of attraction between them.  Awkward things just happen.  It’s kind of funny.

I won’t tell any stories, since I know who reads this blog. 😉 (watch everyone have a different interpretation of that!) But I think I’ve come up with a solution–just accept it.  Yeah, so awkward things happen when you’re with someone you like.  So what?  Just keep on doing what you’re doing.  Once you’re aclimated to the base level of unavoidable awkwardness, it really isn’t that bad.

And if you notice someone of the opposite sex being unusually clumsy while in your presence, you can even take that as a compliment!