It's going to be a tough week for keeping up with my blog. So much to do. But if I can just sit here an extra five minutes every day, and give myself a little space-time to think, I will be keeping my promise and showing up.
It's NaNoWriMo month again, but for obvious reasons I won't be participating. But I hope to some year in the not too distant future! Good luck to all of you who are writing on your furious way to 50,000 words!
I had an experience last night that has been oft-repeated, but I just paid more attention to it than usual. Really, two experiences. First: I had the house to myself and looked forward to writing all day, but once I finished writing for my real job, I felt completely at loose ends and couldn't organize my thoughts or motivation into any kind of literate form at all. Part of it was because I had been typing all day and had really had about enough of keyboards and screens, not to mention words in general. But the other part of it was that...I had the house to myself and no containers or boundaries, no organizing principal for work. (Of course, I had plenty of boundaries, principals and motivations to write boring stuff all day...so maybe I was just tired.) But what it really felt like was that I had no reason to do any one thing rather than another. As they say in NaNoWriMo, what we frequently lack is not talent or the ability to work, but rather a deadline. That reason to write rather than read, watch movies, figure out what happens when you click that icon that you've never noticed before on your screen, wash dishes, et cetera.
The other serious deterrent to writing was several pieces of leftover Halloween candy. Seriously, my brain just stopped working. I had no choice but to watch BBC Presents shows until the shaking stopped. Wow. Hyped and weak at the same time, and very, very scattered thought processes. The candy has since been taken to the staff room at work, whence it disappeared immediately.
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