Thanks, brain
Friday, June 28th, 2013 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelI spent about three hours staring at the laptop screen today, and wrote squat all. I changed one word. Pep talks didn't help, coffee didn't help, nothing helped. It wasn't until I finally gave up and took a shower that words started to come to me, and I realized that part of the problem was that my brain was in editing mode, not writing mode. For lo, all the words were changes to existing material, the story I've been banging my head against and also a little throw-away joke in the work-once-again-in-progress that changed with the new plot and has been bugging me ever since.
What's more, I realized that the book I've insisted on re-reading against my better judgment (it's good, it just doesn't live up to its prequel), and that I'd tried finishing to see if that would clear my mind for writing, was in fact structured around a nihilist Zen sutra that was exactly the inspiration I needed for revising said story.
I love that my brain has these protocols in place, but it could just send a memo, y'know?
What's more, I realized that the book I've insisted on re-reading against my better judgment (it's good, it just doesn't live up to its prequel), and that I'd tried finishing to see if that would clear my mind for writing, was in fact structured around a nihilist Zen sutra that was exactly the inspiration I needed for revising said story.
I love that my brain has these protocols in place, but it could just send a memo, y'know?
