I love it when this happens!

So there I was, cramming about 45 minutes of writing time in before work yesterday, really enjoying writing Mynasthoa, and it happened.

I was clicking along nicely, enjoying the scene and thinking 'wow this is fitting together really well' when I stopped to check the use of a semi-colon and that turned into a quick reread of the paragraph I just finished. It's good I though to myself But there needs to be some dialogue in here to break up the monotony of description and action. It's not a silent film after all. The problem was, he was by himself and I didn't want to change that. So after several attempts at letting him ''think'' about where he found himself and some introspection, I decided to let him talk to himself instead and even that wasn't really working all that well until he called out for his pupil. That was enlightening because 1) I didn't know he had pupil and 2) I didn't know that he needed a pupil.

By having just that little bit of one sided dialogue where he's calling out for Elias (this is one name that I didn't especially pick/check behind the name/agonize over) not only did I break up the description of the scene but it intensified because Elias doesn't answer. It was just one of those ''sweet'' moments that I savor. Everything just came together, all the things I've learned, all the points I wanted to make, and I even got a good 'test response' from a coworker when I read it to them. She wants to know more---and even said that I was being very unfair and she expected me to give her more to read this week.