Month: July 2006
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Relaxation Techniques Needed for an Underused, Overstimulated, Overstressed Imagination
E asked me how my writing day went yesterday. He had spent the previous night working long hours with heavy lighting equipment in a thunderstorm and was leaving at 4:30 this morning for another location. He’d had a long day, and was tired. I had a day off sitting before my iBook writing bits and […]
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Simple Things Meme
Thanks to C(h)ristine over at The Unlimited Mood for tagging me to try out my very first meme: Instructions: Name 10 of life’s simple pleasures that you like the most, then pick 10 people to do the same. Try to be original and creative and not to use things that someone else has already used. […]
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Lucky Galoshes
This morning when I left the apartment, the rain was coming down in sheets—now I truly understand that expression—it felt like I could step between the sheets and for a sliver of a second be dry. A pond had formed on the northeast side of the park, and I splashed through it, since I wore […]
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Imposter
I am here at my writing place on a weekday. Other writers are here—the full-time freelancers who come here 9 to 5 as their job, and the ones who are writing teachers and make time in daylight to write, and those who are students and working on stories for workshops, due maybe tomorrow. There are […]
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I Am a Cheater
I am a big fat cheater! I took a break, went to the bookstore, checked my email, and am now ignoring my own rules to write this post. So sue me. So I say one thing and do another, does that make me a terrible awful person, or just a not-very-prolific writer—and which is worse? […]
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Plan: To Treat Myself Like a Child (Day 4, Morning)
It is unfortunate when a few people break the rules for everyone else, is it not? (Oh, I’m having flashbacks to junior high.) Self: You took advantage. You knew you had Internet access so you played around online throughout the day, making unnecessary posts here, reading other blogs, looking up completely random things on Wikipedia, […]
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Still New
I outlined my new novel today. “Outlining” is relative. I have determined what I want to happen in a tangled, winding way and it may change, or it may never be opened again, but I am a step or two closer now that I’ve done it. This will be a slim novel, a slip of […]
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Doubts
Sometimes the doubts come. No reason, no rejection letter (that I know of—E, have you been hiding any?) to set me off. I’m just walking around this morning and I feel it. Watching people on the sidewalk, they’re lining up to buy tickets for a show, they’re crossing the street, carrying cameras, going to the […]
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Day 3 (Morning)
I have a doctor’s appointment this afternoon. So many doctors lately, and so few answers—it’s annoying. But what does having a doctor’s appointment have to do with my writing day, my third in my mini writing vacation? It’s an ugly blot on the afternoon, this appointment. I know it’s there, I can’t help but know […]
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Day 2 (Afternoon)
I worked on the end of the story. Then I had a burst of creative energy and rewrote the opening. It now takes place on a train. I was so excited, I emailed it to E who says he liked it immensely (he always knows the exact right thing to say when I am at […]
distraction no.99 