Sunday Serenity #45

There are two things I've featured in a Sunday Serenity before, things that relax me by taking me out of myself: getting lost in a story and getting lost in puzzle solving. It occurred to me today, this first day of Sven III, that story writing combines the two. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out how to present that concept in a less boring way than a boring paragraph like this, when I stumbled onto this instructional video that seems to demonstrate the connection between story and puzzle. At least in an indirect way. I almost didn't click on the link because I thought it would be satire. Novel Writing Made Easy. There are times when that sentence would elicit the mad woman's cackle from me. But then, much as I love story writing and can confess that it is a source of serenity for me at times, there are those other times when it is about as serene as wrestling an octopus in a hurricane.

Join us for a moment of serenity.