Comments | tejas: Insomnia and images and words, oh, my!

tejas

Insomnia and images and words, oh, my!

Mar 04, 2010 04:51

So, I'm up before 5:00 AM because I woke up at 2:00 AM and haven't been able to go back to sleep. That's a whole 2 hours. When I crash, it's not going to be pretty ( Read more... )

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sallymn March 4 2010, 11:19:20 UTC

Eeek, know that feeling. The story is so good, it's just the words I come up with get in the way...

tejas March 4 2010, 19:49:09 UTC

Yep. That pretty much sums it up. :-)

traycer_ March 4 2010, 13:45:14 UTC

It's like I don't have enough cpu time available to run the graphics program *and* the word processor at the same time, so I can't look at the image while I translate it into words.

This is the perfect analogy of writer's block, at least the one I go through more often than not. I think I need to give my personal cpu a good, thorough scrubbing!

Good luck with your writing!!!

tejas March 4 2010, 19:52:21 UTC

Maybe I need to defrag my brain. :-)

blackchaps March 4 2010, 13:46:35 UTC

Okay, so I couldn't get to sleep at all, and then the dog demanded to go out at 2 a.m. and then she ran off and then I was pissed and wide awake, so I checked my email and stared at a NCIS story that I really Want to Finish but gahhhhhhhh!!!!

Oh, the crash is on the way.

Our brains, they hate us.

tejas March 4 2010, 19:53:05 UTC

Where's a good zombie threat when you need one. ;-)

cleothemuse March 4 2010, 14:40:11 UTC

My writing of late has been more like one of those old country roads with all the twists and turns and occasional rough spots... and then I get to the river and discover that the old bridge collapsed several years ago and the state hasn't gotten around to replacing it yet. I can see the road on ahead, but I just can't get there!

tejas March 4 2010, 19:54:25 UTC

Sometimes you just have to leave the car and forge ahead on foot. Pain the ass, though.

_thelostcity March 4 2010, 16:11:58 UTC

Yup, happens to me, too. I know what I want it to be, what I want it to look like, but I just can't write it. So frustrating!

tejas March 4 2010, 20:14:46 UTC

I know I should just move on to the next thing and come back to those images another time, but it's so easy to get stuck on them.

_thelostcity March 4 2010, 20:23:14 UTC

It is. Especially when this is what you want to be working on right now, even though it's not working. It becomes an endless loop.

tejas March 4 2010, 20:24:34 UTC

*Exactly*.