Secreting creative juices

I had an idea about a month ago for a short story format: using my...name...as the name of the protagonist, tell a tale through Facebook status updates, a modern (and free) twist on the serialized story concept. I'm sure I'm not the first person to come up with, and execute, this idea (shucks, I may have subconsciously ripped off a Facebook "friend"), but I liked it so I decided to run with it.

The problem was I really didn't have an idea. I had bits and pieces, casting "Harry Guakomoli" as a vigilante of sorts, protecting his area of the city. And I wanted the whole thing written before I started "publishing" the story.

But while suffering during a long long boring night at work I got my idea: the return of the hero's archenemy, Sasquatch MacGillicuddy, based on a comic strip character I came up with years ago. I also threw in a sidekick, a talking cat named Oslo (also based on a comic character). And I wrote the whole damn thing in a couple of hours (interrupted a few times with actual work!). It was sort of like how Sylvester Stallone wrote the script for the first Rocky, except I wasn't feverish and the story has polysyllabic words on occasion (no, "Rocky" "Balboa" and "Adrian" do not count).

I figured the story would be about seven parts, maybe ten (with one new installment each day, taking a week to a week and a half to tell), but I ended up coming up with eighteen bits! And just to make the tale even longer, Facebook has put a limit on the number of characters a user can...use...in a status update, so for a particularly lengthy update, I would split it in two (except for one, which I just had to pare down a bit). So I think when it is all said and done, "The Ballad of Harry Guakomoli" (working title) will be about 21 chapters.

I started the publishing eleven days ago, I think, with ten different updates (I ended up skipping yesterday due to a twelve hour birthday party I attended). When the serial is completed, I will post the tale in its entirety in this here World Wide Web log. If you haven't been keeping up with the story and wish to start now (and for some reason we're not friends on the internets), the link to be Facebook page is as follows...

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1117082182

I'm running late for work, so I don't have time to proof read this thing. Yikes!