Comments | me_fein: Languages, Literature Laments, Lethargy & Cheesecake

me_fein

Languages, Literature Laments, Lethargy & Cheesecake

Oct 04, 2005 11:59

Died. Gone to Cheesecake Heaven. A coworker brought in caramel covered cheesecake - homemade. Mmmmmmm...calories.

Inniu An Mhairt. (Today is Tuesday.) Easy to cheat because I have all the days printed on a Sticky Note at the side of my monitor. I used to do it automatically - without having to look. One of these days, I'm going to remember all ( Read more... )

bm pills, gaeilge, mild depression, not writing, failure, writing, birthdays, tagalog

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blamedstarlie October 4 2005, 19:19:29 UTC

So. I wish I had some time. I'd take you to "Presents of Mind" and we could doddle around and look for a card or something.
Goodluck with the writing. Maybe if you take a camera and go around Portland taking pictures you will come up with something.

tamyranev October 4 2005, 19:54:07 UTC

Maybe you just need a break. Maybe you have too much other stuff going on at the moment. Or maybe you're not having fun with it anymore? The drive to be published can be a real creativity killer. So many expectations.

If you have the urge to write, but not to work on any of your existing projects, maybe you'd enjoy doing random, short exercises. The Writer's Book of Days has some good prompts in it.

Are you doing NaNo?

me_fein October 4 2005, 19:59:13 UTC

No Nano for me this year. I got to 15K last year and all this trouble sort of exploded all over the place and I'm not doing nearly enough to justify blowing off everything else.

Besides, the time commitment of Nano nearly killed me in '03 - which I won, and that's the source of my current woes. This is the piece I'm trying to make publishable. Oh, geeze, I'm just whinging again...

Somebody stab me.

I'm torn. I want to do Nano and yeah, I thought about being completely random and just writing whatever to write and push myself - because I think that works for me in some weird way. It's finishing I have a real issue with.

Wanting to publish does definitely add a new dimension of stress and pressure I don't like one bit.

tamyranev October 4 2005, 20:41:19 UTC

I think our situations are somewhat similar because we're both revising work and we both have other time-consuming obligations. After working on my book for two months I'm totally burnt out. I just stopped where I was and decided to take a vacation and do the writing that is fun. That will last until January and then I'll reevaluate.

The reason NaNo works for me is that I can manage a month of writing in my spare time. I can't do it indefinitely, and it really starts to feel like a long slog when you can see this project stretching on and on.

I may have to rewrite on a schedule of one month on, one month off, or something like that. It's hard to be patient because I want to be looking at a stack of finished pages right now. But the stress just isn't worth it at this point.

chromatick October 5 2005, 15:59:38 UTC

I've been watching WAY too much Filipino Channel on DirecTV, but I don't know if it's helping me learn any Tagalog or not. lol