Writing
As a writer, I feel nervous doing the actual writing part. I'm a much better day dreamer (yes, at the age of 22 I still daydream).
The stories in my head are special snowflakes. If I touch them, they'll melt and disappear and be ruined.
It was easier to write Amanda Ellesworth. I had a controversial idea I wanted to explore, a deadline, and an overwhelming drive to get an A. I think I listened to the Glee soundtrack on youtube while I wrote it.
Though I'm still trying to figure out what makes my gears start, I do know that I need some kind of outside noise.
Of course, there's only so many times that I can listen to Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" which, for me, is the perfect background music ever (it's very easy for me to slip into its rhythm - I get so much done when I listen to it). Which is probably why I don't write well while listening to it -- because the initial writing process shouldn't be bound by a predictable rhythm but should flourish into galaxies hitherto unexplored.
I'm not sure why it took me so long to put in a movie while I wrote. Perhaps it was my subconscious shaking my shoulders. I write stories all the time when I watch the telly -- only in my head. My brain darts here and there, nipping and tucking the plot here, sketching in another character to suggest all the untapped possibilities the plot has neglected, and so and so forth. It doesn't matter what show I watch, I am constantly doing this (which is why I laugh at people who equivocate tv watchers to imagineless zombies).
I guess I've finally realized that revisioning established universes is only a small skip away from working on my own writing while watching the telly. I'm not sure why this works -- I certainly cannot watch tv when I read or when I do homework or even when I write essays (again, I write essays quickly when I listen to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance). Maybe it's because I'm already in a sleeping story telling mode when I put in a movie or a tv show and I just needed the courage to throttle it into full power and take the plunge into my own latent universes.
So far it seems to be working. I've already exceeded Amanda Ellesworth by almost a thousand words without even trying.
The stories in my head are special snowflakes. If I touch them, they'll melt and disappear and be ruined.
It was easier to write Amanda Ellesworth. I had a controversial idea I wanted to explore, a deadline, and an overwhelming drive to get an A. I think I listened to the Glee soundtrack on youtube while I wrote it.
Though I'm still trying to figure out what makes my gears start, I do know that I need some kind of outside noise.
Of course, there's only so many times that I can listen to Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" which, for me, is the perfect background music ever (it's very easy for me to slip into its rhythm - I get so much done when I listen to it). Which is probably why I don't write well while listening to it -- because the initial writing process shouldn't be bound by a predictable rhythm but should flourish into galaxies hitherto unexplored.
I'm not sure why it took me so long to put in a movie while I wrote. Perhaps it was my subconscious shaking my shoulders. I write stories all the time when I watch the telly -- only in my head. My brain darts here and there, nipping and tucking the plot here, sketching in another character to suggest all the untapped possibilities the plot has neglected, and so and so forth. It doesn't matter what show I watch, I am constantly doing this (which is why I laugh at people who equivocate tv watchers to imagineless zombies).
I guess I've finally realized that revisioning established universes is only a small skip away from working on my own writing while watching the telly. I'm not sure why this works -- I certainly cannot watch tv when I read or when I do homework or even when I write essays (again, I write essays quickly when I listen to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance). Maybe it's because I'm already in a sleeping story telling mode when I put in a movie or a tv show and I just needed the courage to throttle it into full power and take the plunge into my own latent universes.
So far it seems to be working. I've already exceeded Amanda Ellesworth by almost a thousand words without even trying.