Day 30
I'm going to try a writing practice, as suggested by the article that I suggested yesterday.
These are the rules:
1. Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written)
2. Don’t delete.
3. Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar.
4. Lose control.
5. Be specific.
6. Don’t think. Don’t get logical.
7. Go for the jugular.
Here goes:
My major stumbling block with this blog is that I have to think about what I want to write about. Since I spend so much time thinkinga bout other things, I really have a hard time choosing what to writeabout. I don't want to bore people. I'm afraid of dialoge. It makes me crazy. Everyone ends up sounding like Isound when I write. when I talk. And that's kind of crazy like. I mix words on purpose, I make my own ryhming slang, that I figure everyone else understands. Even when I know that they don't. Maybe that's part of the purpose of the way I speak, but it doesn't make for good dialoge. I obviosuly can't spell dialoge, but I can't go back and change it now. It's against the ruls. and now that I've brought up the rules, my ind goes blank. sp the key here is to not think about the rules, and just write. Event though the rules define the writeing. I've got my eyes closed, and I'm typing. I suppose it's better that way, because when i see a mispelling, I have to go back and fix it.
Sometimes I wonder why I'm so afraid of writing, and proud that I've done it for most of 30 days now. It's a struggle at the end of the day, but it's become a ritual. Do whatever I'm doing, and when I'm done, sit down and write for a few minutes. If I were to do a writing practice like this every day, I'd find my blank pages filling, and words worth mentioning.I'd break the block. I'd not be afraid of writing. I'd sell and I could find a nother job, somewhere where I don't dread Febraury.
I'm not even going to be able to come back and read this. But my mind has cleared, and I'm good for another episode of Jericho. Tomorrow, I'll try another one of these, and then I 'll try some fiction. Maybe even with a plot.
These are the rules:
1. Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written)
2. Don’t delete.
3. Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar.
4. Lose control.
5. Be specific.
6. Don’t think. Don’t get logical.
7. Go for the jugular.
Here goes:
My major stumbling block with this blog is that I have to think about what I want to write about. Since I spend so much time thinkinga bout other things, I really have a hard time choosing what to writeabout. I don't want to bore people. I'm afraid of dialoge. It makes me crazy. Everyone ends up sounding like Isound when I write. when I talk. And that's kind of crazy like. I mix words on purpose, I make my own ryhming slang, that I figure everyone else understands. Even when I know that they don't. Maybe that's part of the purpose of the way I speak, but it doesn't make for good dialoge. I obviosuly can't spell dialoge, but I can't go back and change it now. It's against the ruls. and now that I've brought up the rules, my ind goes blank. sp the key here is to not think about the rules, and just write. Event though the rules define the writeing. I've got my eyes closed, and I'm typing. I suppose it's better that way, because when i see a mispelling, I have to go back and fix it.
Sometimes I wonder why I'm so afraid of writing, and proud that I've done it for most of 30 days now. It's a struggle at the end of the day, but it's become a ritual. Do whatever I'm doing, and when I'm done, sit down and write for a few minutes. If I were to do a writing practice like this every day, I'd find my blank pages filling, and words worth mentioning.I'd break the block. I'd not be afraid of writing. I'd sell and I could find a nother job, somewhere where I don't dread Febraury.
I'm not even going to be able to come back and read this. But my mind has cleared, and I'm good for another episode of Jericho. Tomorrow, I'll try another one of these, and then I 'll try some fiction. Maybe even with a plot.
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