Musings

So yesterday I was having a chat with kilroy , and we were talking about writing.  I expressed how I would like to actually try my hand at it one of these days, but I'm so infernally slow because of this niggling perfectionism I can't get rid of.  To which he suggested I try NaNo next year (not this year, alternate project here that's serving as a testing-the-waters sort of thing), since it would get rid of my inner editor faster than I could imagine.

Well, I decided to take a first step toward that goal while writing up last night's wiki entry.  See, one of the biggest stumbling-blocks for me in writing is actually naming.  Names are important to me; they're like a cue card that tells you how to relate to whatever the thing is.  You'll never forget a good name (nor a bad name, but for all the wrong reasons).  So when I'm naming something, I want it to be perfect, and that takes time. 

Last night, I threw up my hands and put a placeholder in for all the names that didn't come to me after about ten seconds of deliberation.  And things got done.  Not only that, but it didn't take me nearly as long to come up with the names after the fact, maybe because I had a better idea of what I was looking for.

Progress is made!