Generic Writing Whine
Sep. 28th, 2006 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Still haven't gotten to write any more of Wrath of Trees. I don't seem to have much usable free time this month. After Rhys' bedtime doesn't seem to be very usable; I'm usually pretty fried, and caffeine at that hour is not a very good idea for me anymore. I've been trying to write in lunchtimes at work, but I don't have enough time to finish a section, and the stuff I've written at lunchtimes has generally been crap.
*whine*
*whine*
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:46 pm (UTC)Why is writing so much work?
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Date: 2006-09-28 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-28 04:54 pm (UTC)But, on the other hand, I do that with the full knowledge that I intend to go back and edit the literary glop later.
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Date: 2006-09-28 08:11 pm (UTC)However, I don't have a mortgage and a child to care for, either. I don't know what options are available to you.
But yes, writing burnout happens when you don't get a nice healthy period of unbroken quiet time. The only cure I know is a nice healthy period of unbroken quiet time, possibly done with vacation days, which I don't know if you have with your convention, parenting and festival schedules.
I am an advocate that the standard 40 hour work-week is detrimental to creative types. Artists need balance and without it, it bleeds into other aspects of their lives - which I hope isn't happening too much in yours.
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Date: 2006-09-28 10:59 pm (UTC)The other thing is that I think writing helps to keep me sane/r, so it really sucks when I'm in this position. I don't know if you feel that way as well or not.
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Date: 2006-10-01 09:53 am (UTC)I suggest sticking with the lunchtime sessions, maybe with a bit of warmup by committing yourself to writing anything even the knowledge that it'll be junk. I and probably a lot of other people would love to see random bits of slice-of-life World Tree material using random characters, for instance. You can even call it non-canon so you don't have to worry about the continuity. Another option is to scribble something, anything, about what you remember any of the characters doing or thinking in that point of the story. At worst it will get the ink flowing and remind you of where you were, at best it'll become actual story text or deepen the character development of someone you thought of as a minor character.
Now, if I can pick up this pen in front of me and finish this stupid scene...
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Date: 2006-10-01 09:38 pm (UTC)Nice looking site! Brenda!!!
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