Thursday, January 5th
Jan. 5th, 2012 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinTHE DAILY REPORT
So, yesterday I left myself a resolution on my tasks for the day to start writing before noon because that's often a problem for me.
Understand, I don't think there's any kind of moral value to being working productively at certain hours versus other hours, and I know there isn't a practical value to chaining myself to my desk for eight hours a day and making myself push keys until words appear.
But there is a practical value to being able to start writing at an earlier hour (for instance, because things are happening at later hours), and I want to cultivate that ability, which means cultivating a habit. So I got some free writing done this morning, and it went pretty well.
Right now I'm just stretching my muscles with the free writing thing and not pushing it in a particular direction, just letting the muse move me in whatever direction feels the most natural (i.e., more fetish porn), but the more I do this, the easier it gets for me to work on my other projects. The ability to just sit down and write is both a gift to be appreciated and a craft to be cultivated.
STATE OF THE ME
Sleep sucked last night. The night before was pretty bad, last night was terrible.
DREAMS FROM LAST NIGHT
I was Spider-man, pitching ideas to the producers of the Broadway musical about my life. They didn't use any of my suggested lines because they didn't fit their vision of the character. I don't consider this a weird dream because it is exactly what would happen to Spider-man in that situation, except they would then issue a C&D order to him because they'd trademarked the Spider-man name and image.
PLANS FOR TODAY
Between the lack of sleep and the fact that I haven't taken a "me" day (not counting writing) since The Houseguest Situation ended, I'm going to be taking it easy-ish today. By which I mean I'm not setting specific goals for what I'm going to write or anything to finish. Just three hours of no-stress writing, and if I feel like it a fourth. (I'm not committing to four, because it's possible to burn out on no-stress writing.)
So, yesterday I left myself a resolution on my tasks for the day to start writing before noon because that's often a problem for me.
Understand, I don't think there's any kind of moral value to being working productively at certain hours versus other hours, and I know there isn't a practical value to chaining myself to my desk for eight hours a day and making myself push keys until words appear.
But there is a practical value to being able to start writing at an earlier hour (for instance, because things are happening at later hours), and I want to cultivate that ability, which means cultivating a habit. So I got some free writing done this morning, and it went pretty well.
Right now I'm just stretching my muscles with the free writing thing and not pushing it in a particular direction, just letting the muse move me in whatever direction feels the most natural (i.e., more fetish porn), but the more I do this, the easier it gets for me to work on my other projects. The ability to just sit down and write is both a gift to be appreciated and a craft to be cultivated.
STATE OF THE ME
Sleep sucked last night. The night before was pretty bad, last night was terrible.
DREAMS FROM LAST NIGHT
I was Spider-man, pitching ideas to the producers of the Broadway musical about my life. They didn't use any of my suggested lines because they didn't fit their vision of the character. I don't consider this a weird dream because it is exactly what would happen to Spider-man in that situation, except they would then issue a C&D order to him because they'd trademarked the Spider-man name and image.
PLANS FOR TODAY
Between the lack of sleep and the fact that I haven't taken a "me" day (not counting writing) since The Houseguest Situation ended, I'm going to be taking it easy-ish today. By which I mean I'm not setting specific goals for what I'm going to write or anything to finish. Just three hours of no-stress writing, and if I feel like it a fourth. (I'm not committing to four, because it's possible to burn out on no-stress writing.)