Just so you know - this is what it is like inside my brain as I work:

This is the best idea ever. No, really, this idea is shiny and fantastic. I love it. I love it like a little shiny thing made directly of untouched awesome. It is shit. First of all, twenty other people have done this in the last week, you moron, and secondly you couldn’t handle it right if you were given a map. Which is why it will be awesome to do, because this idea is so cool. This opening? It hits the right tone. Except it sucks. But other than that it is great. Now how can I get to the plot here, because these characters wouldn’t exactly do things this way but I don’t want to shoehorn them into a messy angle of… well I could just start over. I could cheat! Cheating is ok, so long as no one notices. But everyone will notice. No, I’m crafty, they will look at this other hand over here. Misdirection! I dated her once, I think. Miss Direction. Never knew where we were going, needed a GPS. This is no time for jokes! Save the jokes for the writing! Except that one because really, that wasn’t funny. No, no it wasn’t and I apologize. It’s ok, you got it out in your head instead of anywhere else, so we’re both safe. So back to work, yes let’s. Ok this whole thing sucks. I should restart it. Except restarting it will waste time I don’t have. Deadlines matter. True but can I rework it and save time or will that waste more time? You know what would really waste time… I haven’t seen Ghostbusters in at least four months.

90 minutes later

That sure is a good movie. Unlike the shit I write. Except.. I could totally use this new idea to add to the old idea and then merge them with a slight adjustment. Maybe 60 degrees off center and then the characters will all be facing the right angle for the rest of the plot and everything will make sense. This will never work. It will be fantastic! All right I gotta try it and if it doesn’t work I can wipe it. It worked! Unless you aren’t a monkey, I am just a monkey. A fucking word monkey, that’s all I am. But this is good, for the first time I’ve done something good. Well there was that one story, I admit I still do like it. Yeah that one was ok, maybe this can be better! It sucks. I just have to work out a few kinks! The Kinks, man I like the Kinks, I wonder if Wikipedia has anything about the Kinks?

3 hours later

Back to work time. Here we go. Time to rock it, whose house? Run’s house! Why don’t I add a Run D.M.C. reference to this story? Well shit, I do like pop culture. But these characters don’t. All right can I toss one in anyway? Maybe a side character? An NPC can come in and be all “Run’s House, bitches!” and then… rob a bank? Yes! I need a bank robbery in this story. It’s about dinosaurs. Right. DINOSAUR BANK! Dinosaur… sperm… bank? Stop it! FOCUS! All right, so the plot is set the characters are straight and the story is moving. It’s laying bricks now. Just work work work. Nothing to do but hammer and get it done. Unless… that bank idea could work. It could be a time travel story instead. A time travel hijinks-filled, bank robbin’ story. That might be even better. Man I like hijinks. You know… I haven’t seen a good caper movie in like a week. I wonder what I have on the shelf? I have time to watch movie…

And so on…