"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work." Gallagher
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I'm writing. I'm writing. I'm writing! See? I can do it! This morning I made myself sit down and write. No drawing. No stalling. Writing. That's it. One word at a time. I can do it. I have this weird mental game going. If I work on Free lunch for my small group (which meets, incidentally, tonight) then I can "play" and work on IFFY. I know it is all a game, because if I'm really honest with myself (which I try to do now and then--when it's not too scary), then I have to admit that I "talk" it this way so that the pressure is off my writing of IFFY. If I say that is what I am working on, then it makes it official and scary and then it has to be good and all that shit. But if I say I'm just playing, then who cares if it is all shit. See? Mental gymnastics. If I can just fool myself and work around my own brain. No wonder why this all tires me out so much.
I'm also going to try something new (yes, it may fall under the same heading of mental gymnastics cause it might just be another way to pretend I'm not really writing). I bought a digital voice recorder (think mini tape recorder without the tape) to record my thoughts while driving or whenever I have time to think. It doesn't happen as often as you might think. But every once and a while I get a great scene going in my head but I don't have time to write, so I'm going high-tech and trying to record that scene audibly so that when I do have time to write, I can play back and type it up. See? Again, writing but not. I'll let you know what I think of it when I get it. I bought it on Amazon.
Isn't it a wonder I get anything done?
3 comments:
You are not alone, Sarah. The list of excuses not to write is endless. Even if we play at the blog or a forum. We did write, but accomplished little beyond that.
Hang in there.
Hi gang,
Just a very quick note. I haven't been writing. Or, rather, I've been writing a talk that I'm giving this week. Which means I'm writing a power point presentation. I guess I'm writing. I just don't like it as well as real writing.
Mike
Good to hear from you Mike! And writing is writing--some is just a lot more fun than others. Unfortunantly, I'm starting to think the fun kind doesn't pay nearly as well as the professional kind.
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