Insanity Sufficient

Believe it or not, I actually have been writing some in recent weeks. Okay, so maybe "writing" isn't the correct word to use. "Outlining" is more like it. It's a new approach for me, where I just come up with ideas and write the general actions of a scene or, in the case of what I'm writing now, strip. I've got about 15 outlines of strips that I really need to get to work on the dialogue for, but this whole outlining thing is so awesome and new and fresh that, when I allow my mind to wander and ponder and brainstorm, I can't stop myself long enough to flesh any one idea out. But in the last couple of weeks, I've kind of hit a wall again, and I've been trying to get back into it all, but it hasn't been happening. That is, until I realized what was missing. I overheard one of the pharmacists at the pharmacy I work at use the phrase "Quantity Sufficient".QS is a pharmacy phrase that means "a quantity of an ingredient or product needed to bring up a volume or weight of the preparation to a final amount as it is indicated in the prescription; also refers to a determination of an adequate supply of medicine to fulfill either a prescribed amount or a sufficient quantity to provide treatment over a specified time frame." It's when I heard that phrase used that I had my "Eureka!" moment. What has been missing from my outlines, what would flesh them out more is a good ol' dose of insanity! But not just any ol' insanity (just the dose is ol') would do. It had to be sufficient for my needs. What I write has to be insane and insanely entertaining.

And naturally, I haven't yet utilized my new-found motto. Baby steps, though. That's the name of the game with me. I think of something, then I stare at it for far too long. If it still interests me by then, I do something with it. If it doesn't.....then I don't. But "Insanity Sufficient" has me so jazzed about writing that I'm tempted to get it engraved in stone or put on a plaque or something like that.... if I had the money to do something like that.