Because I wanted to sleep at night so I can go to Bookware yesterday morning, I was already in bed at around 10 p.m. Saturday night, staring at the underside of my sister’s top bunk, twiddling my thumbs.
When I finally closed my eyes, instead of going to sleep, my brain went somewhere else… to Sagada with two people I didn’t plan on meeting or writing about in the very near future. My gulay, I have another three books to write for the Legaspis, tapos may sumulpot pang isa, then this one! And, I’ve never been to Sagada so I have no idea what I was thinking about. But the scenes kept on coming and the lines were there, and when I gave up on sleep, I finished conceptualizing the whole freakin’ story (plot, scenes, dialogue, characters including secondary, conflict, climax and resolution) just as the sky was lightening with day on the outside. I thought if I had started writing it, I would have written down half the book already. But since I had plans…
In the end, I didn’t get to sleep, I didn’t get to write, and by the time I would have wanted to leave to go to my publisher, my eyes were drooping so hindi na lang. Sometimes, I love/hate being a writer… especially if I get one of those attacks in the middle of the night when I’m too lazy to reach for the laptop. Right now, I’m just doing Multiply checks, checking my site, and researching Sagada, and trying to cram in my dayjob :p
Off to write.
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