I had an idea!! I love the feeling I get when I come up with an idea for a story. It's like discovering a hundred-dollar bill in the pocket of an old coat, or finding chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in the freezer when all you thought you had was vanilla, or maybe even winning the lottery, though I've never done that. It's a great feeling.

Now I sit in the library and type away furiously. It's not going to be one of my huge eight-hour writing stretches... I don't have the time to do that today. So I will work as long as I can, and then come back again tomorrow and write more, and again the next day, and so on until it's finished. I've never written this way before - all the stories I've ever finished have been completely written in one day. I'm a little worried that this will disrupt the flow of the story, but maybe it won't. Maybe it'll work. It has to work, right?