I forgot.

Memory, Qu’estque c'est? It appears that I don't have one.

Or more precisely I have no memory for my own prose. A friend of mine, boroshan went through a period of writing poetry - I don't know if he still does - and can quote entire reams of his own stuff at the drop of a hat. I mean, fair enough; he wrote it, why shouldn't he remember it? (It wasn't bad poetry, either. Never mastered the art myself as my one comparatively recent attempt on just_writing proved.

That aside, I do write a fair amount of stuff. At the moment it's all subsumed by the need to churn out NWO character sheets, but I do actually write a fair amount of prose, all taken together.

But it seems that I can't remember writing great chunks of it.

I downloaded several edited character sheets for a read - pax_draconis has been rather busy recently, checking for continuity and tidying up hanging threads etc. left between character sheets written by our team of eight writers. I'm not ashamed to say that I re-read my own first to see what had been added or rearranged, and found myself looking at entire passages I didn't recognise. A number of times I thought, "coo, that's a nice turn of phrase; I wish I'd used it" or something similar. And then checking back on my drafts, I find out that I did write it, but don't remember.

I should pay attention more when I'm writing character sheets. Instead of just writing what the character is telling me, I should actually listen to the buggers. They can be quite entertaining.

But I can't really blow my own trumpet, because I don't recall doing it half the time.

I forgot.

Memory, Qu’estque c'est? It appears that I don't have one.

Or more precisely I have no memory for my own prose. A friend of mine, boroshan went through a period of writing poetry - I don't know if he still does - and can quote entire reams of his own stuff at the drop of a hat. I mean, fair enough; he wrote it, why shouldn't he remember it? (It wasn't bad poetry, either. Never mastered the art myself as my one comparatively recent attempt on just_writing proved.

That aside, I do write a fair amount of stuff. At the moment it's all subsumed by the need to churn out NWO character sheets, but I do actually write a fair amount of prose, all taken together.

But it seems that I can't remember writing great chunks of it.

I downloaded several edited character sheets for a read - pax_draconis has been rather busy recently, checking for continuity and tidying up hanging threads etc. left between character sheets written by our team of eight writers. I'm not ashamed to say that I re-read my own first to see what had been added or rearranged, and found myself looking at entire passages I didn't recognise. A number of times I thought, "coo, that's a nice turn of phrase; I wish I'd used it" or something similar. And then checking back on my drafts, I find out that I did write it, but don't remember.

I should pay attention more when I'm writing character sheets. Instead of just writing what the character is telling me, I should actually listen to the buggers. They can be quite entertaining.

But I can't really blow my own trumpet, because I don't recall doing it half the time.