the Waiting Place

[bluedevi]

I feel weird. Doing displacement activity (I cleaned a wall earlier. Just one wall. In the bathroom) but not sure what I'm trying to displace. It feels like summer in my flat, which is great, but it's bringing back the way I felt for much of last summer, all twitchy and paralysed, wandering from room to room incapable of actually doing anything.

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[hoshuteki]

Oh, by the way, it's looking likely that I shall be going to the Chemical Brothers also. Are they any good live? I was also going to ask what people are accustomed to wear to these kinds of things, but as I can't go home and change, I guess I'm stuck with what I'm wearing.

[bateleur]

Gah. I should be writing.

Good stuff is not written when you force yourself to write. It is written when you know that you must write.

[verlaine]

I'm still hoping that that switch is going to flip in my brain, one day :)

[bluedevi]

I dunno. I always want to, but even so there's an initial barrier I have to force myself over in order to start. Once I'm into it, good stuff comes. But too often the barrier doesn't get climbed because it's easier just to sit here hitting Refresh.

[bluedevi]

Done!

(sorry, I've been buried in postwodehouse mail.)

[carbonunit]

But what's the good of all these gigs and fun and socialising and experiences, if I don't make something out of it all? Gah. I should be writing.

Think if it as subconscious preparation for writing. You might not remember the exact details, and you might lose some ideas you think up, but it will compost down in your back brain and provide nourishment for other ideas later on. It's neat because you can justify pretty much any indulgence, "I'm just nourishing my idea pool", without having to do any writing.

[the_elyan]

Come to Cambridge and help me bag my first brace of tourists of the season...

[hairyears]

Is there still crash-space available? Paris Weekend has been cancelled at very rude notice...