It’s similar to songwriting. Easy to get a chorus, the main idea. A little challenging to set it up with some verses that make sense. Then you get to the bridge, what to do… The bridge for me is often the hardest part of completing a song. It has to both compliment the verse and chorus, and yet be distinct enough as a thought and in a musical expression to help re-engage and then push the listener to keep going to hear the last double chorus, driving that main theme home.

And that’s where Hadron is at right now. I feel like I have the guts of a good idea, I’ve got the Chorus, it’s Hadron’s character. I’ve got the verses, Rieman, who sets up Hadron. Now I’m at the bridge, trying to craft the sense of isolation and desperation that Rieman will feel and that I also feel trying to complete the section! The same sense of loathing that Rieman must come to, I must overcome, in order to finish the idea. And by idea, I only mean the first draft. This is way harder than writing a song.

What have I gotten myself into? Writing sucks. It’s running. The last 20% before the last 5% sucks. You’re in it and wondering, what the hell did I do this for?

At least I have a blog that no one reads so I can get zero sympathy.

In the meantime, I’ve rediscovered my love for Photoshop and editing because of Dalle-2, MidJourney, Open.ai, Stable Diffusion, and other image generating platforms. I can test, what is it that I imagine, and does the model know what I’m talking about? Fun to play. A great distraction from actual writing. Actual work.