I discovered a little gem the other day, a program called Q10. It is a wonderful little word processor, designed for writing and nothing else; it completely blacks out your entire screen and presents you with nothing but… writing. It even has little typewriter sounds to make it feel like you’re… writing.
It inspires me to create something. But what? Endless possibilities lie in front of me, a million ideas fluttering in the wind, ready to be grabbed and put into a literary masterpiece.
Unfortunately, problems loom ahead. The words do fine on their own, but the ideas that come to me seem to be rather a tangled mess of intertwining jumble. Take this example, the first two paragraphs of my first literary masterpiece: :)
The rain splashed down onto the platform from a dark and brooding sky. It was the kind of rain that falls with the intention of once and for all proving to people rushing to get home from a full day in the office, that the day can, in fact, get worse; and what funnier way of doing so than by soaking them completely wet while waiting for a train? The rain splashed loudly and happily onto the poor, hurrying persons being unfortunate enough, on this rainy Wednesday in November, to take the 6:05pm from Cheltenham Station; a train that was about 30 minutes late.
The reason that the 6:05pm was about 30 minutes late had, unfortunately, nothing to do with British Rail. It was largely because of a heated argument in passenger car number four, between a Mr. Nixby and a very unfortunate professor of high-energy particle physics.
I can’t wait to read the rest. The question is… where do you go from here? :)
I see Douglas Adams is not dead after all!
I admit I rather do like his style of writing.
Interesting beginning, would be nice to read more! Have you ever written any other longer stories. When I was younger, before high school, my dream was to be an author or an artist. It´s a wonderful feeling to be caught up in an imagniative world where the story it self leads the way!
And then who knows where it all might end when the Holy Spirit leads the way!?! – Exciting!