My friend Jenn Jackson asked if I was willing to play in her play-by-email game. I have been thinking about it for a while, and finally mentioned to her at my last WEF session that I've been meaning to email her about getting an invite.
Of course, she finally emails me when I'm in the middle of a creative drought, having to make up a new character for a new game (since we all died in that Monday game), having a vague idea for an Amber game (that won't take place now, since I was the only one interested), the character for the letter game blog with Anne, and now this game.
So I talked back and forth with her in email a little bit, then basically dropped it. I had too much other stuff to concentrate.
Then, another person asks me to join his PBeM Amber game...
Well, on the way back from breakfast with Anne and Tim and Will, a word came to me. It may be because of playing Final Fantasy X...the taunts of "hornless" to poor Kimahri made me hear the words that spawned a 1,800+ word background all starting with the word that echoed in my head.
Treeless.
For a person whose society is based around trees, tree cities, and such, being treeless would be very bad.
I was 3/4s of the way through the background before he had a name.
Sometimes, creativity strikes, and we must follow the muse. If I had given in to my impulse and played FFX, Saelin would never have been born. At least, not in the way he was today.
I really need to follow that writing muse more often. Otherwise, she gets terribly lonely.
Even if that means I still haven't watched Friday's Farscape.