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Since I'm so close to being finished with The Bone Girl, most of my current days are spent staring at my laptop screen, writing furiously, staring at the ceiling, and then writing furiously some more. I've written eleventy billion words already today, and as soon as I'm done posting this entry, off the internet I will go again, and on to the second wind of writing for the day.
I HAVE MADE THIS GRAPHIC TO EXPLAIN OUR LIVES.
I usually start the mornings as early as I can manage at one of my two favorite coffee shops. I drink a LOT OF COFFEE with insanely cheap refills because I love my baristas, and my baristas love me, and then I write an obscene amount of words. Actually getting up and going to a location is a way of treating writing like the job it actually is, and respecting it for me. Some mornings, certainly, I roll out of bed, do mah yogas, and start to write on the loveseat or in the Temple Room, but my best writing days come from the previous way of doing things. Also, our children are mad distracting. WORK THROUGH THIS DIFFICULT SCENE OR PET A PUPPY? HM, LET'S SEE WHAT I SHALL CHOOSE. :P
I love that I've figured out my best way of doing things. I can't even tell you how many words I've been writing lately, because the Word Council might get on my tail and redact some. ;D <3
So, coffee shop! And around midafternoon, all revved up, I come back home, or we come back home, and MANY MORE WORDS are written together in the Temple Room. There are breaks in there, walks, LOTS of hula hooping, and glomping of cats and pups, but for the most part, it's just writing, all the time.
Jenn and I are so deep in both of our current projects, that when we surface for air, we have the sexiest, "let's figure out the rest of the plot," or "what should this character do?" or "what about this plot hole?" conversations. Writing and working together is one of the smexiest things in the known cosmos.
It's TRUE.
On the way home from the coffee shop today, I turned to Jenn and said "I so badly want to make an LJ post, but I'm SO BORING right now! It's all plot details and main characters, and keeping ten stories together clearly in my head REQUIRES SKILLZ, and I am going to BORE people with MANY WRITING RELATED DETAILS." And Jenn was like: "well, post anyway. :) <3"
SO I MADE GRAPHICS TO MAKE IT MORE INTERESTING. AND I LEAVE YOU WITH THIS:
I usually start the mornings as early as I can manage at one of my two favorite coffee shops. I drink a LOT OF COFFEE with insanely cheap refills because I love my baristas, and my baristas love me, and then I write an obscene amount of words. Actually getting up and going to a location is a way of treating writing like the job it actually is, and respecting it for me. Some mornings, certainly, I roll out of bed, do mah yogas, and start to write on the loveseat or in the Temple Room, but my best writing days come from the previous way of doing things. Also, our children are mad distracting. WORK THROUGH THIS DIFFICULT SCENE OR PET A PUPPY? HM, LET'S SEE WHAT I SHALL CHOOSE. :P
I love that I've figured out my best way of doing things. I can't even tell you how many words I've been writing lately, because the Word Council might get on my tail and redact some. ;D <3
So, coffee shop! And around midafternoon, all revved up, I come back home, or we come back home, and MANY MORE WORDS are written together in the Temple Room. There are breaks in there, walks, LOTS of hula hooping, and glomping of cats and pups, but for the most part, it's just writing, all the time.
Jenn and I are so deep in both of our current projects, that when we surface for air, we have the sexiest, "let's figure out the rest of the plot," or "what should this character do?" or "what about this plot hole?" conversations. Writing and working together is one of the smexiest things in the known cosmos.
On the way home from the coffee shop today, I turned to Jenn and said "I so badly want to make an LJ post, but I'm SO BORING right now! It's all plot details and main characters, and keeping ten stories together clearly in my head REQUIRES SKILLZ, and I am going to BORE people with MANY WRITING RELATED DETAILS." And Jenn was like: "well, post anyway. :) <3"
absolutely ridiculous