...Back now (I think)

 Hi.

........................

Yep.

It's me.

Been a while, huh?

Well, I'm here, and I am here to say that I wrote a thing. 

Just now.

It's a SILLY thing, but that was kind of the point.

Earlier this week I decided to sit down and write something new, something with no baggage and no history with me and I was going to just see if I could write something as fast as I could while still attempting to have it not be garbage, as a sort of mental judo by which I hoped to sidestep the crippling anxiety and maddeningly unmovable impostor syndrome that I wrestle with whenever I attempt to do some writing.

And damn if it didn't work.

Four consecutive days of writing, coming at a story completely cold, and I got down over 14,000 words, finishing it up in a marathon, all-day session.

Now, through those four days I had every intention of posting this thing under a new pen name (I picked one out and set up the email for it and everything).

But, well, by the end of it I realized that although parts of it are very rough, there are also sections of it that I'm actually proud of, and I can't bear to throw this child out there into the world as an orphan.

So yeah, a silly story in a fandom I never imagined I'd visit, but there you go.

Now I just have to see if I can repeat this little experiment with a story that I care about.

We'll see.

----Alan