Thu
Feb
12
“ I may have some ability at writing, but writing takes me a very long time. What’s worse is that I can’t compartmentalize it from the rest of my life. When I write something, the actual time I spend typing is between 1% and 5% of the total time investment. The rest is spent day dreaming about it, thinking of how the ideas will go together, about this sentence that should appear halfway through, about things I might need to research first, and so on. And when all that’s sorted out, I still have to wait around for the moment when I’m not tired, hungry, or distracted. Then I have to keep waiting even more until I’m also inspired. I believe at least three of the planets must be aligned, too, or two plus a moon at the least.
Writing Well by David Sirlin (via treyo-wands) (via noahkai) (via theyoungmachine)(via tarts) (via srsly) (via unicornology) (via buyhercandy) (via singlescoop)
and I gotta say, the levels of distraction I can find on my computer (but wait! some of it, truly, is inspiring! right?!) add a ‘very’ to the very long time for me to put out any (should edit it out, but am too…
sigh…
