I'm not sure this is a blog, but more an observation. After two solid weeks of creating at least one 75-word paragraph a day for my book my brain has suddenly found a creative vein not previously tapped. I'm seeing stories everywhere. The simplest, most normal moments suddenly take on a fantastical, sad, happy, gruesome spin and demand to be written down. Capturing them in a 75-word paragraph is like trapping a fly in tree resin, eventually it solidifies as amber, a moment encapsulated forever.Some of these stories will never be more than what they are now, a self-contained tale, locked into their 75-word format, but others, well, I see characters, ideas, scenes that I want to explore in much greater detail...I've had to leave a notebook and pen in the bathroom because most of my stories come to me while I clean my teeth, or at least, ideas which have been there, but intangible, corner-of-the-eye things suddenly come into focus. I scribble while I brush and then in the morning type up my scrawl.Sometimes, I go to bed, lay there for a bit, then get up, get the notebook and then go downstairs and write it up there-and-then.My fellow WordWatchers have been great during this period too - I share most of my paragraphs with them - their immediate feedback is invaluable and very precious. They're finding the paragraphs I have intended to be funny, to be funny. I have found that it's easy to be grim, sad and terrible in such a concise format. If anything the 75-word format encourages it - nothing brings a 75-worder to a convenient close like a sudden demise. However, trying to be funny, trying to set-up a scene so that you can deliver a funny line, twist or situation is surprisingly tricky, but I seem to be getting there. When the book comes out, hopefully you will think so too.Tonight, I created the picture below, it's how I feel right now, so that's my smiling face in the picture.