How can you keep up writing so much, while writing so and so *special*. Are your muses running wild? Are you 'only' a very disciplined writer?
Heh! Me, disciplined. That's just... funny. I do find that I write best when I have a routine-- I work in an office all day (if you define "work" very liberally), and although I have the time and the ability to write in the office, I usually find myself quite uninspired. So generally as soon as I get home, I take my laptop and a blanket out onto my balcony, overlooking a little duck pond, and I try to write. I try to give myself a break after every ficlet, although sometimes I also take breaks in the middle, especially when I'm lost or confused about something in the writing. I'm not a disciplined writer by any stretch of the imagination, but this is the third year in a row that I've done NaNo, so I think I've developed some pretty good coping strategies for getting the thing written.
Plus, it doesn't hurt that I'm about three days ahead of the posting schedule with my writing (I posted part 56 today, but I'll have part 68 written by tonight), so the pressure isn't as high to get it done on time as it has been in past years.
As for my muse, well, it comes and goes. I prepared a spreadsheet before the month began listing all of the story titles and their corresponding song lyrics, but I haven't always stuck to that-- Sometimes I have to try two or three lines until I find something that works. The key, I've found, is writing something. Anything. Because even if I write 600 words and then end up deleting the whole thing and starting over, at least I'm writing.
I've babbled on too much. And you are too kind. Thank you. :)
I totally love getting an insight in the mind of another writer. Please don't worry about babbling ;) I asked you, didn't I?
*drops the 'disciplined' idea and loves you very much still*
And the duck pond just sounds lovely :) I found that writing at the outside gives me a totally other flow, a writing more high on all the stimulates form nature (does sound that wired?). I wrote one thing this summer, lying in the grass outside and high sky above, trees near and it's the part of my writings from that period I love most.
Heh! Me, disciplined. That's just... funny. I do find that I write best when I have a routine-- I work in an office all day (if you define "work" very liberally), and although I have the time and the ability to write in the office, I usually find myself quite uninspired. So generally as soon as I get home, I take my laptop and a blanket out onto my balcony, overlooking a little duck pond, and I try to write. I try to give myself a break after every ficlet, although sometimes I also take breaks in the middle, especially when I'm lost or confused about something in the writing. I'm not a disciplined writer by any stretch of the imagination, but this is the third year in a row that I've done NaNo, so I think I've developed some pretty good coping strategies for getting the thing written.
Plus, it doesn't hurt that I'm about three days ahead of the posting schedule with my writing (I posted part 56 today, but I'll have part 68 written by tonight), so the pressure isn't as high to get it done on time as it has been in past years.
As for my muse, well, it comes and goes. I prepared a spreadsheet before the month began listing all of the story titles and their corresponding song lyrics, but I haven't always stuck to that-- Sometimes I have to try two or three lines until I find something that works. The key, I've found, is writing something. Anything. Because even if I write 600 words and then end up deleting the whole thing and starting over, at least I'm writing.
I've babbled on too much. And you are too kind. Thank you. :)
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*drops the 'disciplined' idea and loves you very much still*
And the duck pond just sounds lovely :) I found that writing at the outside gives me a totally other flow, a writing more high on all the stimulates form nature (does sound that wired?). I wrote one thing this summer, lying in the grass outside and high sky above, trees near and it's the part of my writings from that period I love most.
Thanks for answering :) *hugs*
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