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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i remember when i used to have a process...oletherosMarch 7 2011, 17:08:02 UTC
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.
when i write freehand, i feel like i'm the first reader of the material that my brain comes up with and i'm really just doing transcription. at least, it feels like that when i'm really deep into the groove. getting into the groove is always the toughest part, though. it requires an ability to completely zone out and lose focus on everything and just let the hand's muscle memory work on pure reflex alone. one of the reasons that i like writing in a noisy club is that everything becomes just background, almost like white noise.
i don't tend to write anything that spans over multiple writing sessions these days (although shannon is trying to convince me to change that trend), but when i did, i found that a best practice was to stop writing before i got to the end of the thought (or scene) that i currently had on the page. if i completed the thought, i would really struggle to pick up the pen the next day because i didn't know where to start. if i had an uncompleted thought on the page, i had a thread to pick up from and a reason to start writing again - even if it was just "i want to get this finished."
when i write freehand, i feel like i'm the first reader of the material that my brain comes up with and i'm really just doing transcription. at least, it feels like that when i'm really deep into the groove. getting into the groove is always the toughest part, though. it requires an ability to completely zone out and lose focus on everything and just let the hand's muscle memory work on pure reflex alone. one of the reasons that i like writing in a noisy club is that everything becomes just background, almost like white noise.
i don't tend to write anything that spans over multiple writing sessions these days (although shannon is trying to convince me to change that trend), but when i did, i found that a best practice was to stop writing before i got to the end of the thought (or scene) that i currently had on the page. if i completed the thought, i would really struggle to pick up the pen the next day because i didn't know where to start. if i had an uncompleted thought on the page, i had a thread to pick up from and a reason to start writing again - even if it was just "i want to get this finished."
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