Fun fact: It is incredibly hard for me to stay in my seat when I am writing. Any time I reach what can be seen as a stopping point, be it paragraph, character description, chapter, even section header, I find my way out of my seat and into trouble. It isn’t often bad trouble or even time consuming trouble, but it is time out of the chair where the writing is supposed to happen. I do not attribute this to laziness. I am not a lazy writer. I avoid shortcuts and often overwrite sections just because I find those sections are difficult for me and in those instances more ends up on the “cutting room floor.”
It is a direct result of how I process dopamine. Or maybe it’s attention span. I don’t know. Either way, I try to leave multiple times every hour. Once I thought this may be related to the 10 minute rule and having trained myself to write solidly for ten minutes and then stop. However, when I tried to test this theory by recording my gasps for escape, I found that they had no time correlation but were more about getting to a so-called stopping point and not wanting to jump into the next part. In fact, I am blogging because I reached a stopping point for what I was doing and I didn’t want to jump into the next part.
This is not something for which I crave a solution. It is a quirk. We all have fun little quirks, or at least they are fun until they become bothersome or dangerous to us in some fashion. This one is not so much dangerous as it is time consuming. Time is one of the main issues I have when it comes to the written word and my chosen life path. So, eventually this one will need to get fixed. But not today.
Some Thoughts:
- 404 error. yeah, I make the same sad joke every time.
- Sometimes when I write I hear the narrator speaking each word into existence. Presently this blog is being written in the voice of Wil Wheaton.