I Don't Want to Write
Sep. 8th, 2011 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennifer_brozekRight now, I don't want to write. I don't want to edit. I don't want to do anything in my chosen field of work. Because it is work and it is hard. But, because it's my job, I will write.
Fortunately for me, the business of writing encompasses a lot more than ass-in-chair-and-fingers-on-keyboard. It includes emails, social networking, blogging and all kinds of other things that don't actually mean I need to work on the current work in progress.
However, I've noticed something: as I drop projects off my plate and shift into long term projects with much higher word counts, I have less things to turn to when I just don't want to write. That means I need to either be more creative about my procrastination or I need to stop whining and get to work. I suspect I will come to a happy medium between the two.
I have also discovered that on this long term web serial, I actually do my best writing late at night. I'm pretty sure this is because I get too tired to hear the doubts of my inner critic. Also because I'm allowing myself the luxury of 1000 words a day instead of 2000 while I work on edits for the novella and do research for unnamed projects.
Research is awesome for 'not-writing' moods. I need to do it anyway and it allows me to shift gears. This usually involves a lot of reading.
You know, it's clear I don't want to write. This blog post is all over the place. Time to go find something else to do. Tonight I'll focus. But for now I think my writing brain needs a small rest.
Fortunately for me, the business of writing encompasses a lot more than ass-in-chair-and-fingers-on-keyboard. It includes emails, social networking, blogging and all kinds of other things that don't actually mean I need to work on the current work in progress.
However, I've noticed something: as I drop projects off my plate and shift into long term projects with much higher word counts, I have less things to turn to when I just don't want to write. That means I need to either be more creative about my procrastination or I need to stop whining and get to work. I suspect I will come to a happy medium between the two.
I have also discovered that on this long term web serial, I actually do my best writing late at night. I'm pretty sure this is because I get too tired to hear the doubts of my inner critic. Also because I'm allowing myself the luxury of 1000 words a day instead of 2000 while I work on edits for the novella and do research for unnamed projects.
Research is awesome for 'not-writing' moods. I need to do it anyway and it allows me to shift gears. This usually involves a lot of reading.
You know, it's clear I don't want to write. This blog post is all over the place. Time to go find something else to do. Tonight I'll focus. But for now I think my writing brain needs a small rest.