But I'm saying ... get in another saddle for a little while. Just for a change of scenery or whatever. Write, like, a personal essay or something. You know what I mean? Give your brain some time to relax and focus on something else.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Amy - May 12, 2009 2:17:11 pm PDT #1563 of 6690
Because books.
Barb - May 12, 2009 2:19:54 pm PDT #1564 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Give your brain some time to relax and focus on something else.
::SNORT::
Have you met my brain? I could climb in another saddle with all good intentions. Trying to distract myself, but there it would be... longingly looking at the other saddle... thinking, "I should be in that other saddle... I'm so weak, that I can't manage the other saddle..."
Yeah, I don't like living with my brain most days either.
SailAweigh - May 12, 2009 2:24:59 pm PDT #1565 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
So get your snorkle mask and swim fins on, go swim with the sharks words. Screw the saddle.
Barb - May 12, 2009 5:06:41 pm PDT #1566 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Sail skeers me.
So I wrote 1000 words.
SailAweigh - May 12, 2009 5:10:14 pm PDT #1567 of 6690
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Hee! Yay, Barb!
Gudanov - May 13, 2009 4:55:43 am PDT #1568 of 6690
Coding and Sleeping
So I wrote 1000 words.
Is it something about sharks riding horses? Glad you got going.
I think I got in about 600 - 800 words last night. The first intimate scene came up last night and that slowed me down. Also in a place where I narrated a conversation, I decided to yank the narration and use dialog instead.
Hmmm... Should I use dialogue instead of dialog? I'm not sure if there what the different between the two words is. I do a fair amount of user interface programming so I'm used to typing dialog in the context of a "dialog box".
-t - May 13, 2009 1:45:57 pm PDT #1569 of 6690
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think either spelling is acceptable.
I finally got caught up in here, yay! And I've been writing, more yay! I had an epiphany about a project that made it the One True Project for Right Now (it's a perennial problem for me, I try to focus on one thing and get distracted by another idea) and started writing longhand in a bound journal. That used to be what I always did, but I was seduced by the Word Processor with its promises of easy editing, which was also my downfall as I am one to get mired in revising when I should just be plowing through the first draft.
Anyway, it's going well, got about 4000 words that maybe could stand alone but I think it will end up being about 20k. I'll be needing a beta in a few days if anyone is interested. Retold fairy tale, basically.
Barb - May 13, 2009 2:46:25 pm PDT #1570 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
Whenever you're ready, -t, you can ping me.
-t - May 13, 2009 2:52:30 pm PDT #1571 of 6690
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Thanks, Barb. I can send you a Word file or share a Google doc with you, as you prefer, as soon as I get it typed up. Friday or so, probably.
Barb - May 13, 2009 2:53:32 pm PDT #1572 of 6690
“Not dead yet!”
No prob. Word's fine with me.