So I came around to recognizing that I don’t know what to write about. I can tell you that there are a dozen stories that I want to tell, and worlds I want to write about. Should I be writing about them? Yes. Definitely. However, nothing in the fantasy is at the level where I can tell a story. The eventual space faring drama is at the stage of: yeah, I ought to do one of those eventually, so also no. It feels like I have stories queuing up but since I am still on these 3 right now, I cannot think past, around, through, or beyond them. I am completely focused. Turns out the span of said focus is 3 with the backburners chugging heartily away on at least one if not more of the next three. I suppose I could use this space to chart backstory for characters in the modern day story I am writing. I could spend ten minutes a week telling stories about the people who will be in that story, moving the back burner action forward and actually getting me feeling that work.
Yeah. That’s the ticket. So, now we have a plan for future freewrites that will include fiction. When I write the book on writing I’ll rewrite this part to reflect a calm and nuanced approach to developing fictional characters that starts with building a new person each week (or each day even) and seeing how those lives eventually come to intersect.