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RE: Sometimes Your Brain Just Goes Slack... (Ulog no. 4)
Then there are days where I 100% know what I need to do. I see the words. I hear the words. They are not showing up the page when I try and type them. It’s not writers block more like I’m walking in mud. It will happen just take ten times longer than it should have. I still have to get stuff out on those days otherwise I start falling behind and motivation goes out the window. One day turns into two days and then oh its been a week.
THAT. Right there.
Yesterday, I sat down with a more or less complete rough draft I was going to polish up and put out there... and I actually dozed off in front of the computer. Not because I hadn't had sleep, but because I felt pretty much bored to tears with what I was looking at.
Well, not exactly...
I was bored with the process... I actually thought to myself "This is pretty good, but why can't it just finish itself?"
And I ended up just sending it back to the drafts folder and instead struggled to write the above two paragraphs, pretty much about nothing. And the only reason I even did that is much the same as what you hinted at... I gotta stay in the flow, or I'm just going to blow off a couple of weeks, before I realize it. And then it will be really hard to get back into things...
Fridays tend to be my days for it to hit. I have a community post I aim to put out those days and after I start thinking about next week’s content. So it’s always like “if I can just get this done” I’m now ahead for two days as far as my own flow goes.
I’ve been trying to spend more time outdoors these days. I know when I feel like “oh it’s nice outside” if I can I just go out for just 10-20 mins. Better then wasting energy and getting distracted with that feeling. I think that is what many are struggling with. I’ve noticed it a lot in peoples posts. Even when I talk with people you can just tell.
Whereas I have pretty much always known that writing is a "practice" and you have to keep after it every day... I haven't really managed to sell myself on the idea. Well, not completely, anyway.
Of course it's summer here, now... which really means something in Western Washington; we have daylight till 9:30 and a yard that creams for attention every time is rains and then a warm period follows. So my writing slacks off because "there's so much other stuff" clamoring for my attention.
Ripping out weeds is actually pretty good for creative inspiration...