Down day in the word mines. I am still trusting the process, and somedays the process flat out sucks. It is tough to sit there and feel like you are not really getting anything good down on paper. You are plodding through the situation, making more errors than proper words. Heck, I misspelled 8 words already in this dang blog. Each time I had to go back and spell check the darn thing and then find my way back to what I was saying. Fits and starts indeed.
Doesn’t have to be this way. Here is a challenge: Write as much as you can as fast as you can and don’t mind the errors. If you do this you will see a ton more words on paper. Writing is not about thinking. Planning to write is about thinking. That part of the experience is about putting together ideas and deciding directions for characters in this mess we call a plot. Writing is about getting it out of your head and down on paper where you can actually do something with it. Maybe you toss a thousand words in the desktop trash. Maybe even three thousand. But you wrote four. You’ll find more good stuff when you let everything out and stop stopping because you messed up a word or 11.
Some Thoughts:
- Home frustrates me more and more some days. I don’t really know why some days are worse than others, but I am clearly only in this state to raise the remaining school age kids and, specifically to be there for them when they play football. How do I find a way to do that but not be in the state? Take them with me of course. We shall see if that is even an option. Regardless, one change I can make is to spend less time here at home when the situation feels untenable. Hit the gym maybe?
- 48 errors. I have been off my typing game for days now.