1st Person

So not only do I maintain this daily blog but I also keep a journal for my Master's class. I write two notebook pages by hand every week at the very minimum and I am only telling you that to tell you this. I HEAR VOICES!! I read 1st person narratives and then write non-stop and now everything I do gets narrated to me by my own voice inside my head. Is this what it's like to be a writer? Do professional writers brush their teeth at night and think, "As I was brushing my teeth, I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and turned to see a spider dangling from the ceiling on a single thread of silk," and then go back to mindlessly brushing their teeth??

By the way, I hate the sound of bugs squishing. In fact, I only capture bugs and release them outdoors because I can't stand the sound of killing them. I have purely selfish motives and I do feel better about myself for doing so even though I know I don't deserve to.

What was I talking about? Oh yes. My head voice. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not, but I really wish I had some writer friends so that I could ask them, "Does your narrator speak to you while you change your underwear? Just curious."