it's never sunny; it's always grey

[ryanleeds]

I've been revisiting older project lately, things I remember from my writing in high school and early college. Even some as far back as middle school. I don't have the actual papers anymore, but the ideas keep cropping back up. I had been playing with the idea of an old character back from... late middle school, I think. It didn't work out in the situation I put it in, so I abandoned using it in that project, discarding the character entirely for the time being.

But as I was going through playlists on iTunes last night, I realized that it was a story that should be told. The plot has changed from when I was younger. I need it to be less cliche, for starters. I need more characters. I need better turns of phrase and a clearer alien environment. Which I'm getting now. And once again, I'm happy with what I'm writing.