Day Twenty-Nine

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Please post today's updates/excerpts/thoughts/etc. in comments.

Here's today's daily prompt for your updates, excerpts, any thoughts, etc.

Yesterday's post: Day Twenty-Eight

Comments

[tawek.livejournal.com]

I've had the same experience several times this month.

I think it happens when I am emotionally overwrought (which tends to happen when I am tired): in which case things do *seem* rubbish and to be going nowhere.

I think the best initial cure is to keep writing, and suddenly, the good things in my imagination start sparking off each other, and I remember what moved me in my writing in the first place.

The final cure, of course, will be in my editing process: to cut, polish, and embroider until the writing actually reflects the good things sparking around in my imagination ... But should wait till after the first draft is done.

Sadly, the cure is hard to apply. I find this forcefield in front of my keyboard whenever I open the word processor, and these nasty little demons keep saying - "it's a week since you last cleaned your fridge!" ;)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Wow, do you really clean your fridge every week? (*looks around guiltily*)

[tawek.livejournal.com]

lol ... no. But, when I'm writing, the procrastination demons claim I should.
When I'm not, I can get away with once in a blue moon ;)