have i mentioned that i totally envy your output, lack of writers' block, inspiration? i mean, i try to write, and 90 percent of the time it's like pulling teeth. at some points i decide i'd rather do the dishes. i have the ideas and then i sit down and like, nothing happens. anyway. just had to mention, which turned into a whine. have some cheese. ;)
I have my tooth-pulling days, certainly. But also it took years and some stressful situations to train my brain this way.
Part of it for me -- and I have no idea if this is part of it for you -- is that I had to really buy into the idea that I was allowed to write total crap and fix it later. That if I sat down and didn't know how to say that someone left the room without it sounding like I was a 12-year-old writing about unicorns, I should write it like I was a 12-year-old writing about unicorns and fix it later, in the revisions.
Another part is, well, this is what I do. But when I was a physics student (undergrad and grad), physics could very easily have overwhelmed everything else. So I had to learn to write regularly in order to keep the leash on physics.
The down side is times like last night, when I was really, really too tired to be up working. It's good to be inventive, but right before I typed this post, I decided that I should write words like this: "inexperienced" would become "nxprncdieeiee." I mostly liked how
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Ah, this explains why so many Ghostbusters were in San Diego. They heard you saying this, and they had to express themselves in costume. Now all is made clear. :D
Suddenly I want to see one of those giant balloons - the kind at parades - as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. -boggles- My brain needs a shower.
I want you to know that I am not ignoring you on this question. It's just a larger question than I've had the time to answer in the last few days. I will post on this topic soon.
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I think the big-scariness of this thing is a lot of it, in my case.
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Part of it for me -- and I have no idea if this is part of it for you -- is that I had to really buy into the idea that I was allowed to write total crap and fix it later. That if I sat down and didn't know how to say that someone left the room without it sounding like I was a 12-year-old writing about unicorns, I should write it like I was a 12-year-old writing about unicorns and fix it later, in the revisions.
Another part is, well, this is what I do. But when I was a physics student (undergrad and grad), physics could very easily have overwhelmed everything else. So I had to learn to write regularly in order to keep the leash on physics.
The down side is times like last night, when I was really, really too tired to be up working. It's good to be inventive, but right before I typed this post, I decided that I should write words like this: "inexperienced" would become "nxprncdieeiee." I mostly liked how ( ... )
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Suddenly I want to see one of those giant balloons - the kind at parades - as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. -boggles- My brain needs a shower.
-hugs-
- Chica
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