Posted on 29 January 2014
Here are a few actual excerpts from this recording. Allow me to preface this by saying that while this makes me look really, really lazy, I actually accomplished something during this session. Regardless, read at your own risk:
- I’m talking a lot right now because I don’t want to actually write. Because it’s hard. And because it’s also really weird talking to myself.
- I am not saying what the title is and I’m not describing the premise because I fear if I say it out loud, even if no one’s going to listen to this, it will sound so incredibly stupid that it will discourage me from continuing.
- Why is this so hard? And I really want to eat these crackers so I’m setting them aside. Okay. I want more coffee too. Basically I want to do anything but write. Because when you start to write, that’s when the failure begins.
- It would just be so easy to never do anything.
- Now I’m going to try to change points of view. After one more quick game of spider solitaire.
- I’m just staring at the cats now, in case anyone’s wondering.
- I don’t know why writing is so damn hard. Seriously, what’s the deal with that?
- My ear just started ringing. Better stop writing! Just kidding.
- To my cat, Saucy: Do you want to write my story for me?
- So much of writing is pushing away my mental blocks. I’m looking at this and already thinking someone in workshop is going to say, “You don’t need this first part, just get to the next section.” I already know this, but I need to write it anyway.
- (Quiet mumbling) Shitty first drafts, shitty first drafts.
Shitty first drafts, indeed. That 75-minute writing session, which I came to hungry and tired and obviously predisposed to whining, resulted in a new story opening. So at least there’s that.
What are you saying to yourself as you write?
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