Writing Mood

I have been writing so much these past two days! Like, words've just flown out of me! It's crazy! And great! I had already forgotten how it feels to write like that, incessantly. (This has been very incessant. I haven't even checked Twitter, which is crazy incessant for me.)

Only they are not my characters. It's not my story.

And I know, NaNoWriMo is coming and I should use all the time I have left before November to plan. But this one just took over me.

It's a story of a dear and old friend, Chrystal. She's been writing it for almost as long as we have known each other (which would be around 6½ years now). Versions have come and gone. This one though, I think, is the final. It works. It's deep and interesting. And it wouldn't be here without all the earlier drafts and one story fusion.

(Two lessons to be learned here, especially if you're a young writer:
1. It takes time and work to come around a final draft.
2. It's OK to melt two separate stories together if the fusion works. It can even make them both better. At least that's what happened here.)

Anyway, I've been reading this since the very first chapter of the very first draft and I've loved each one equally more than the last one. So I'm very invested. I'm also invested for other reasons but I have to leave something for your guessing... the point is, everything I've written these past couple of days has been of this story of my friend's. I do not write the main character's narrative, but one of a minor character's, who is of a special interest to me. And I've loved every moment.

The problem, of course, is that I've completely disregarded my own stories. NaNo is fast on its way - and isn't it healthier anyway to write your own characters than someone else's? Not referring to fanfiction, it's a different business. And this isn't fanfiction what I've been writing. Mostly, at least.

I'll try my best to tear myself away (to a healthy distance) from Chrystal's story. We'll see how it turns out.