Story idea.

[kitchen_kink]

Reading Stephanie Vaughn's wonderfully simple and elegant Sweet Talk has got me thinking of story ideas from my own life. The obsessive way Scott used to make shopping lists. The hours I would spend in front of the computer, him frustrated at the time taken away from him, even as he cut into weekend time together with his ridiculously ritualistic housekeeping behaviors. Vaughn manages to write stories that revolve around the major points in a life: a divorce, a father's death, a mother's cancer, a short-lived but obsessive relationship, without concentrating on the event itself: she instead weaves between the lines of the events, fills in the blank spaces, the details of the lives that go on, inexorably, during life's little tragedies.

Just write, you crazy person. Stop thinking about whether it's a novel or a story or whether it's going anywhere or not. Stop being so afraid of it and just write, sit down and just write, just write, write, write and shut up.