An Experimental Note

Good morning, everybody, it's good to be back again, whilst also the Sydney winter seems to have ended, allowing of more play. This week we are up to the sixteenth story in Aberrant, entitled, A New Home. This story was a bit difficult for me to write, and is a good example to show you all how I come up with a story. After all, this story was written just to fill in the scheduled hours of writing, on a certain day. 
     This story began with an idle note in my Moleskine pocket notebook: 'An aqua coloured leaf, obviously spray painted, was the only thing disturbing the pristine pool.' Thus, one day during writing hours, whilst going through my Moleskine, I decided to use this note as an opening line. I then outlined its introduction a bit more, outlined a middle, and outlined the end. Then I got out my laptop and just wrote out the first draft of the story, using the outlines as a guide. Yet I was just filling in the hours scheduled for writing, so the tale felt a bit unnatural in the telling. I then, like all my stories, put it away for two weeks, after which I began editing it, at two hours per day over three days. Any more editing than that tends to drive me somewhat balmy.
     Practically all of my stories over the past several years have begun from a note in my Moleskine notebook, which I always, whilst awake, have on my person. Each writing session begins with taking out this notebook, and then writing random sentences, or old memories, or conjectures, or something experimental. Once I have something that intrigues me, I begin expounding upon it. This week's story's genesis was from an experimental note.
     Anyway, these days, after many years of practice, I have got writing short stories down to practically an automated routine. Sometimes I even think that it's too sinfully easy. But still, it's good when things come easy.