I put this draft entry in April of 2016.

Revenge is bliss

The obvious starting place is living well is the best revenge.

Here it is August 2018 and I’m still working on the story.  I decided on a smart girl that is turned by revenge and gets a job at Bliss (a real cosmetics company).  She gets a degree in cosmetic science (a real degree).  She picked that major to get back at the pretty girls.

She’s inspired by The Devil’s Rain in high school.  Her first real evil plan is to turn spit black  because a co-worker got some spit on her silk blouse right before a presentation.

I have story plotted out but the actual writing is going VERY slowly.  Writing is work when you’ve read a lot of good articles and books.  I’m a slow typist, I’m lazy and I have no talent for dialog.

I know I’m a slow typist thanks to the typing.io website.  This site measures code typing speed.  My best score is 23 wpm.  Another excuse is my wife has cats that like to get between me and the screen.

Writing fiction is work.  In fiction you have to turn movie scenes in your head into words and scenes take a lot of words for people to see the same scene that you see.  It takes so long to get some words onto the computer screen because I want to be original and I’ve seen and read too much.  All that dialog and location description is good for trivia but bad for writing.