Writing Junkie
It's cold this morning. Slushy, cold, snowy, crappy and blah. And like some kind of writing junkie, I'm sitting in front of my computer, staring at my writing folder and willing myself not to open it. Just a few more days. Then I'll get my fix, man.
It's hard not to write, minions.
Strike that, it's mind-blowing impossible not to write. But I'm doing just that. You'd think that writing in my blog would make it easier, but it doesn't. And last night, I had a revelation about a story I'd been working on last year. It was damn hard not to run screaming to that Word file and dive in head first.
Today I'll be continuing to reread American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It's excellent. Creepy and weird and often makes me wonder if I stumbled into Wonderland with Dillon, but I love it.
72 hours and I can write.
It's hard not to write, minions.
Strike that, it's mind-blowing impossible not to write. But I'm doing just that. You'd think that writing in my blog would make it easier, but it doesn't. And last night, I had a revelation about a story I'd been working on last year. It was damn hard not to run screaming to that Word file and dive in head first.
Today I'll be continuing to reread American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It's excellent. Creepy and weird and often makes me wonder if I stumbled into Wonderland with Dillon, but I love it.
72 hours and I can write.
posted by Heather Brewer at 7:08 AM
15 Comments:
Hey Heather . . .
We're reading hte same exact book. I read about five chapters of it last night, awed yet again, by his brilliance.
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Isn't Neil amazing, Erica? So deliciously creepy and WEIRD! I'm on page 66 and hoping to finish it off by Friday.
He's a god. Definitely.
I just finished reading it for the 4th time last month, because I just got a copy of 'Anansi Boys' and I wanted to read them back to back.
Now I'm into 'Quicksilver' by Neal Stephenson.
Keep up the good work on waiting to write... kinda like lent for the writer isn't it?
Great minds think alike. And so do ours, minions. ;)
Lent...kinda. Except I think mine is shorter. I have no idea. How long does Lent last? Regardless...it's sucking my will to live.
Well, not really. I just wanted to say that.
I have no idea how long lent lasts... have to talk to my Catholic sister-in-law to find out. I'm pretty far from being associated with any of the 'major' religions... :)
Sometimes... sometimes suckage is a good thing :)
Especially when you're a vampire. :)
*clinks Bethany's glass*
I call it "cleaning out the mental cobwebs" :) Glad to know I'm not alone.
in CA wine country, at a wine tasting, they have bread and crackers to 'cleanse the palate' between tastings... sort of like what you are doing :)
[raises glass to toast as well]
Since I don't write much at a time, I find that working on other stories, diferent genres, or even in poetry helps to clear out the cobwebs or at least get me out of a rut in my writing.
I've done that, but I've found, for me, the best thing to do is go cold turkey.
... which of course is really good with some mayo and lettuce on toasted sourdough bread... and not that east-coast crap that they try to pass off as sourdough, but the real stuff that you have to go to specialty stores for, or order online... yeah, thats the really good stuff.
Darn, now I'm hungry again.
*tummy rumbles*
Ewoh...go make me a sammich.
Digital turkey "sammich" coming right up master.
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Ewoh, I can honestly say...that is the scariest damn sammich I've ever seen. :)
heh... it is ascii art... and requires that you see it in a font like courier... I should have realized that it wouln't come out well in the comments... sorry.
Bad minion, no cookie.
It looks angry, whatever it is. ;)
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