I’ve always had this idea that I could write. For years I’ve thought that someday I would write a novel, and I’ve collected ideas and “thought snippets” I figured could be useful. The big issue with writing isn’t grammar, sentence structure, and phrasing…it’s having something to say. I can take a near nothing of a thought, and run with it, making up a story as I go, like spinning a yarn around a campfire, but I have difficulty sustaining it long enough to be something substantive.I had a talk with my friend Ken Boa this week about the novel I’m working on. I related my overall concept, and shared some of my plot ideas. He’s the most well read person I know, and when he indicated my plot and story ideas weren’t already published somewhere, it was great news. I had this fear I would create something someone else had already created. He gave me great feedback and some wonderful suggestions on plot twists, and he challenged me to write 3 blocks of text a week. If I can do that, I’ll be able to sustain some creative inertia, and maybe, actually, get this done.