I had this thing. Let me explain:

I have these little dialogues that play out in my head. Not between, like, voices or the Devil or Jesus or anything potentially indicating that I'm not mentally competent to stand trial (unless of course I'm being asked to stand trial, in which case I'm nuttier than a wagon full of pralines...) but little scenarios that I set up and just work out. It's a precursor to writing stuff. It gives me an opportunity to develop a personality and idiosyncrasies for a character before I actually have to commit it to paper. I'd like to think it's completely natural.

Anyway, I had one last night (or more accurately this morning) that was funny and insightful and clever and crisp. Damn was it crisp--just kept coming without bogging down in silliness. I thought to myself "Maybe I should write this down before I forget it" to which I replied to myself (and for the record this is a completely different form of internal dialogue than the scenario thing...) that it was already after 8 in the morning and I need to get to sleep and that since the whole thing was so crisp and clean and catchy (it was catchy, too...) there's no way I'd forget it. If anything a night's sleep would only help reinforce the whole thing.

Yeah. Great idea slick.

The only thing I remember is that it was between me (or a first-person character) and someone very similar to a certain female author who will remain nameless. And that there were clever things about the meaning of life and God and stuff. You know, the small issues.

Stupid sleep patterns.

On the bright side I watched some TV tonight and realized that, in fact, Poppy Montgomery is probably the outright hottest thing on television today. So what if she can't handle the accent very well? TV is such a wasteland, but that doesn't mean there aren't some piece of natural beauty floating around in it here and there.

Anyway, work is commencing on the novel and possibly some tweaking with "Second, First" but I don't want to get ahead of myself. Something constructive about something is going to happen. At least there's a 75% chance that it's going to happen...

-Joe