Lately I've been a Peter Pan fan. I'd like to get on to reading the book as well as rewatching the 2003 movie. I was thinking to myself that I really must get on with writing something else because CP3 really depends on Kate feeling like it which isn't all the time, even though we've written 42 pages in 2 weeks and that's hella good.

But me having thought of such things lately, remembered my ancient 4-year-old story The Staircase (because it's very similar, yes?) which I still believe is a good idea, poorly carried out by a 15-year-old author. And I realized that one of these days it needed to be fixed, better thought-out, and restarted. I knew that now wasn't the time, but my urge to at least feel that restarting could be done had me trying to write a new beginning. I had some kind of feeling that I could sit down and actually write something decent that would inspire me to get cracking on it the way I restarted He's There.

Didn't happen. I wrote one paragraph that made baby Jesus cry and gave up. I'm so bad at beginnings. It's proof that before any amount of writing is done, I have to actually design these characters in their entirety, design their situation, their feelings, and some creative way for this little world beyond the stairs to be explored instead of purely first person narrative. Thinking...thinking...

I know eventually I'll have nothing to do and really be in the mood. Maybe during Winter.
In the mean time, I may just start redesigning/adding to the characters. It sounds like fun. If you read The Staircase and the word 'redesign' sounded surprising in a bad way, relax. A few tweaks, but mainly just elaboration.