Profile Editor. Writer. 9-5er. Lord of the Dance. Blurredline.com Apodis Publishing Fusion Fragment cterrill(at)blurredline.com Buy Goodbye, Darwin Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format Buy Blurred Line Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format The Short Stuff "Learning Magic From Mint" - published May 2007 in Atomjack "Between Eternities" - published October 2005 at Speculative.ca "Smoke and Mirrors" - published June 2005 in Byzarium Submissions Log Total Subs: 25 Acceptances: 3 Rejections: 17 Withdrawals: 3 Subs Out: 2 Quality Blogs Scalzi's Whatever Dave's Blogography Bookslut The Struggling Writer SF Signal the0phrastus Paperback Writer Scribe's Writing Desk Nathan Bransford Lyons Literary LLC The World in the Satin Bag Book In The Oven The Word Perhaps We Learned Something... Words, etc. Archives March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 Et Cetera Cavan @ Last.fm Cavan @ LibraryThing Feeds Atom Feed RSS Feed	Monday, April 02, 2007 - Inspiration Strikes! I'd been having a pretty crummy day. Actually, yesterday wasn't so hot, either. Anyhow, sitting at work today, I was feeling a bit depressed. Since I work a really tedious data entry job, my mind tends to wander while I work. Today, it was wandering over the usual topics that have been the source of my anxiety lately (mostly money, or the lack thereof, for the curious readers). Then, while grooving to KT Tunstall and paying the lowest possible amount of attention to my work, the opening lines to a story started forming in my head. Now, this is a pretty common occurrence for a writer, but I haven't been randomly struck by inspiration in...oh, I don't know, around six months. So, on my break, I grabbed the only available piece of paper (the back of a vacation request form) and covered the thing with the opening paragraphs of a story. And then I felt great. Really, genuinely happy. I'm not certain it'll go anywhere, because when I start a project without having an ending in mind, things tend to fizzle out at some point. Still, it's just the fact of inspiration that's got me in such a good mood. When you're in a funk, especially an extended one, it's easy to forget how much fun writing can be. Oh, and I also started reading Lolita. I'm only on page 50, but holy crap, does Nabokov ever rock. Cavan blogged at 4:47 PM | 4 comments	Progress Zilch! 0/0 Listening A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed" My Music Reading Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney My Library Watching Black Book: B Sweet and Lowdown: C Breakfast on Pluto: B Wishlist Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart