Writing not just typing

[onceupon]

Painted my nails this weekend. Fancy Fuschia, which is really just a very bright easter eggy pink. One of the toll workers who I see almost every morning complimented me on it, which was nice

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[onceupon]

It is REMARKABLY useful. We also tend to send our writings to each other and share word counts but the thing that makes the biggest difference is just the... expectant presence? I guess that's the best way to put it.

[onceupon]

Deadlines are magic.

Which reminds me: I am waiting on those Russians.

*grin*

I think part of my inability to get stuff down without external expectation is that my internal priorities are kind of out of whack. Writing is good for me - but I'll put off stuff that is good for me in favor of other stuff that is good for other people. And then I run out of time and it's been two weeks and I've gotten nothing personal done.

[lizs18]

Well, I don't write fiction really, so my process is mostly that something gets stuck in my head and I find that I have an entire essay of things to say about it. Usually I'm inspired by something I read and I think, well, what if I applied that logic to this topic that I find even more interesting? Or it's just something that's been on my mind and I have an experience that really gets me going. It's mostly when I have that 'something is burning the inside of me to get out' feeling is when I decided to write.

[kest]

I tend to get a point in things where I go, 'I should have a plot!' Because, you know, up to that point, things have just been *happening*, not really with any rhyme or reason, and so I kind of feel I need to make logical sense out of them. But then, yeah, I have the same problem as you, and lose motivation.

I love the group chat idea. I have, historically, gotten a lot of my writing done by going to things like poetry readings and writing there. Your brain really does need to get in a different gear, I think. You have to go petition the muse, hat in hand. But you're also right about the many different methods. I used to hang out on a writing newsgroup, a long long time ago, and they used to quote Kipling, who said "There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right!"

I haven't written anything in years, now, and it makes me sad.

i remember when i used to have a process...

[oletheros]

when i was writing full-on fiction, i discovered that writing with a pen in a notebook was better than typing because i typed faster than my brain could make up stuff to write about. as a result, i spent a lot of time staring off into space, waiting for my brain to make up more stuff to type

[firynze]

My process is to sit down about once a year and bang out 3/4 of a novel in one long, crazed writing frenzy, and then to drop it and never finish. So, er, I'm not much help here...