I'm deep into a months-long writing project. At this point I'm constantly thinking and hearing my characters' voices and reworking things and connecting things. It feels like a perpetual second skin that surrounds my body and is with me wherever and whenever I go.

It's a distinctive state of mind. Not bad, just noticeably different.

I get "creative" a lot, but this feels different.

The shiny thing above is what I'm writing about.