"I love deadlines.  I love the wooshing noise they make as they go by."   — Douglas Adams (you know, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy guy?)

Eventually in life you have to make a Big Decision.  This could be anything from deciding which classmate to ask to the prom or to change careers.  This kind of Big Decision making happens every darn day for a writer like me.  I’m not all that all that keen on making decisions, because in my past I’ve made some incredibly bad ones.  So, I wind up putting off the decision for as long as humanly possible.  Since I’m a writer, I call it "First Draft-itis."  Last night, the Muse struck (which, in my case, is not just a pretty saying) and I wound up having to make the Big Decision to actually put pen to paper and crank out the first draft of a speculative short story.  How’d I manage it?

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