Had a nice and busy holiday weekend with family. Today at work has a blah feeling and you know what? I like it. Its kinda grounding.
Havent really written anything in a week or so.
Today, its lunch, i am working on reading some stories from my online writers group.
Im okay with it 🙂
I got room for the blahs 🙂
So for my writing group “The so called writing life” I am reading an article in which the author says “…don’t edit as you write. That’s like criticizing the taste of the tomatoes as you’re still planting the seeds….”
I agree. First drafts are all about the barf. Just get it out. You inhibit yourself when you are too worried of how it comes out.You can’t shape the barf in your stomach but you can shape it once its out and on the table.
Does this all sound disgusting? Don’t be such a prude. “Life” is organic and disgusting with all of its blood and burps and shit. Writing is breathing “life” into an idea. Just remember even the cuties babies are disgusting burping shitting pissing little creations. Now go enjoy yourself. 🙂
So earlier today when I was writing chp 30 I decided I needed to kill off another character. So I have it planned out but have yet to actually put it down. It was a tertiary character so its no big deal. But I thought to mention it because picturing her die brings just a little bit of joy to my day.
Ubuntu is still installing….zzzzzz
Okay so i have been doing the magic spreadsheet for a month now and i basically have 40,000 words. Now most of that was done in stolen moments like riding lighrail etc…
I have come to the conclusion that writing is easier for me than probably most in that my ideas flourish and my fingers flow. In pausing to do chp 28 for Mr. K i had to ask myself why? The best answer i could admit to is because it is (mentalky) harder to double check/edit that to free flow right. I need dedicated undisturbed time in order to edit where in my life i just don’t get it. I need to have multiple screens or multiple dead trees laid out before me so i can check one against the other. I cant do that in light rail or at work where I can sometimes get in a bit of sneak writing. I love my kids but they cant go more than five minutes before whining about needing something. I need to come up with some sort of solution.
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So I’m at work doing my thing and listening to ISBW podcast episode 284 when at the very end Mur says “I wrote yesterday. Â What I wrote may not be awesome but its awesome that I wrote.”
While I really liked the improve inspiration I couldn’t but help think of the following line from the movie Mystery Men
Sphinx: Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage —
Mr. Furious: Your rage will become your master? [The Sphinx freezes, caught] That’s what you were gonna say, right? Right?
Sphinx: … Not necessarily.