LNH20: Writer's Block Person #39: "Too Much Time Inside My Own Skull" Part One

[Drew Perron]

On 6/28/2018 3:04 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
> On 2018-06-28 09:59, Drew Perron wrote:
>> [Early March 2018]
>>
>>     Writer's Block Person was having a nice picnic. The periwinkle grass 
>> shuffled musically in the minty-cool wind, and the robinfruit sang in the 
>> trees. Their picnic partner, a human-shaped collection of tropes named Todd, 
>> handed them a gyro and a can of god.
>>
>>     "Really?" said the purply-orange hippo, sunning xerself by the pond. 
>> "We're starting another issue in the Mindverse?"
>>
>>     Yes. Now shut up.
> 
> That's my kind of dream sequence.

I always try to make dreams really *dreamlike*, you know? Like, when a dream is 
just "a normal scene but there's your dead uncle there telling you what to do", 
screw it >:/

>> || Wait, really? || said Dr. Puppy (don't think too much about how she types 
>> with paws, okay). || Totally offscreen? ||
> 
> Special keyboard, no doubt.

Absolutely. Actually, since she's an alien from a technologically advanced 
society, it'd be more surprising if they *didn't* have something like that.

>> Writer's Block Person pulled in a deep breath, let it out, sighed. "Yeah. 
>> Just..." They rubbed their arm, not letting go of Whisperion's hand yet. "I'm 
>> a really happy person but I'm also a really angry person. I don't show it as 
>> much, not to y'all, but it's been getting tough lately. It's been so gray for 
>> so long... this winter's felt like it's lasted forever."
> 
> Is this normal evil weather, or artificial evil weather?

Normal, and very much based on how it actually was this year in Pittsburgh. @-@ 
We had a couple extra weeks of low temperatures and gray.
>>  From within the helmet came a voice, swallowing, struggling to get the word 
>> out. "Skull..." They threw their head back and howled. "SKULL WRITER'S BLOCK 
>> PERSON!"
>>
>> Drew "part 2 coming next week!" Perron
> 
> Now that's an interesting development.

Why thank you! :D And for those familiar with it, yes, this is a Digimon homage.

Drew "things that stick in your head" Perron