On writing...
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Kirby Crow had some things to say about writers and The Process here: kirby_crow
Well, yes. Absolutely. I agree in the main.
I would like to add that writers need to find their time of day to write. Not make the search for the golden hour a new stalling tactic, just feel through the day. I write creatively in the late afternoon and into the even/night. Morning is for research, organization, etc. I don't "flow" in the mornings, but my mind is keen for details.
Nope. Peaks and highs don't last. Neither do first tastes of spring fruit or orgasms or the first time a weak kitten takes that hideous rubber probe into its mouth and chooses to draw life from such a false mother.
Personally, all of my highs and peaks come during the thunderbolt of the idea's conception. When it penetrates clear through to my marrow and then opens back out again to color my life. The actual scribbling and bibbling? That's craft and application of skill. I never really *feel* much while the actual writing is taking place. Don't expect to feel much, but I do like the research and honing, editing, thinking and flexibility of route and concentration required.
Here's another thought, again from my own experience. If the work on a particular story has run its course (like running out of steam while hiking), then it's okay to stop. Not if you have a contracted submission deadline - in this case you have a legal obligation and you'd better keep grinding. I mean a private work or a distant deadline. Stop. Go outside, take time to hang those shelves in the spare bedroom that will hold all of the binders of research...draw, sleep, drive until you have to fill up your car in a town you've never visited. Switch it up to rest that mind. Let the creative muscles recuperate. Then go back to the work refreshed and stretched out. Rested and reinvigorated.
No one technique works for every author. You have to pay attention and find your rhythms and patterns. These change over time just as anything changes over time. Like relationships with people, vigilance, care and love are required to keep things growing.
One last word: Be sure to treat yourself with respect, love, honor and patience. You are an author not a construction worker!
Mis dos centavos -
Athena - nee JD Greybraid
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Kirby Crow had some things to say about writers and The Process here: kirby_crow
Well, yes. Absolutely. I agree in the main.
I would like to add that writers need to find their time of day to write. Not make the search for the golden hour a new stalling tactic, just feel through the day. I write creatively in the late afternoon and into the even/night. Morning is for research, organization, etc. I don't "flow" in the mornings, but my mind is keen for details.
Nope. Peaks and highs don't last. Neither do first tastes of spring fruit or orgasms or the first time a weak kitten takes that hideous rubber probe into its mouth and chooses to draw life from such a false mother.
Personally, all of my highs and peaks come during the thunderbolt of the idea's conception. When it penetrates clear through to my marrow and then opens back out again to color my life. The actual scribbling and bibbling? That's craft and application of skill. I never really *feel* much while the actual writing is taking place. Don't expect to feel much, but I do like the research and honing, editing, thinking and flexibility of route and concentration required.
Here's another thought, again from my own experience. If the work on a particular story has run its course (like running out of steam while hiking), then it's okay to stop. Not if you have a contracted submission deadline - in this case you have a legal obligation and you'd better keep grinding. I mean a private work or a distant deadline. Stop. Go outside, take time to hang those shelves in the spare bedroom that will hold all of the binders of research...draw, sleep, drive until you have to fill up your car in a town you've never visited. Switch it up to rest that mind. Let the creative muscles recuperate. Then go back to the work refreshed and stretched out. Rested and reinvigorated.
No one technique works for every author. You have to pay attention and find your rhythms and patterns. These change over time just as anything changes over time. Like relationships with people, vigilance, care and love are required to keep things growing.
One last word: Be sure to treat yourself with respect, love, honor and patience. You are an author not a construction worker!
Mis dos centavos -
Athena - nee JD Greybraid
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