Ah writing, how I've missed you!

So let me say that I'm totally in love with this short story that I'm working on.

It's not that I think it's some earth shattering piece of awesome (well slightly...) but it's because for the first time in years and I mean yeeaaars, it won't let me put it down!  I've been working on it every day for about a week, a week and half?  And it's been great!

The progress isn't pages a day, more like a few sentences, but it's the fact that it occupies my thoughts constantly that is so, so sweet!

It also made me realize partly why I don't write as fast as I used to.  I remember when I was a kid, I'd easily whip out a ten page short story in a few days.  In grade 12b* I wrote a 44 page novellette in sometime like maybe a month?  But they were very rough and not very fine tune in the editing.

But that's when I realized that that's why I've been so slow lately!  I can't unlearn what I've learned about editing, and so my editing side nit picks as I write.  Here's how writing a scene goes these days:

"Ooo ooo ooo oo!!  This is exciting, ooo that's gotta hurt!  C'mon get him yes!"
"Ew that sentence is ickily formed, man there's too much dialogue not enough description."
"Oh shush we're trying to write a story!  Let me get it down, ew gross that sentence is off."

Aaand so on.

Or I get too caught up in sublteties.  Silly subtleties that really should not be a focus while I write anyways.  But I get sooo into them that I get distracted from the main plot. OY.

But I've started to be able to shush up the editing side of my brain long enough to actually get a first draft going!