Two o'clock in the morning
May. 30th, 2010 02:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellotron_breakfastTwo o'clock in the morning, I'm not out in the street.
My creativity loophole is to suddenly come up with expansion ideas while I'm trying to sleep, then walk down the stairs, activate the computer and save it to a file. Four paragraphs, three of them rather short, today; all stuff which not only adds to the physical length of the story but makes easy logical connections to existing parts. Also, some parts which seem to be the way they are simply because that's how I imagined them will have better explanations for being, which would make them happier if they had feelings and should satisfy the reader.
It's the best I can do, since I'm not comfortable doing any actual writing until I think I've given proofreaders a fair chance. I don't think anything stops me from writing some of these scenes now except for a general discomfort with doing anything other than plan stuff.
I wonder if it's the late night showers that suddenly motivate my brain.
Yes, you're mocking me on two counts, I'm sure. No doubt questioning what kind of scene forms in my head at 2 AM on a Sunday morning, and also assuming I get 80s hair from late night showers. Go ahead, but I'll have the last laugh--and not due to thinking the slowest.
Unrelated, good on Roy Halladay. He chased no-hitters throughout his stellar tenure as a Toronto Blue Jay, sometimes being foiled by one single hit. Sometimes that one single hit lost the game. Sometimes that one single hit was in extra innings, and he was still pitching. It was frustrating to watch.
He did one better and pitched a perfect game, the 20th in the history of major league baseball.
My creativity loophole is to suddenly come up with expansion ideas while I'm trying to sleep, then walk down the stairs, activate the computer and save it to a file. Four paragraphs, three of them rather short, today; all stuff which not only adds to the physical length of the story but makes easy logical connections to existing parts. Also, some parts which seem to be the way they are simply because that's how I imagined them will have better explanations for being, which would make them happier if they had feelings and should satisfy the reader.
It's the best I can do, since I'm not comfortable doing any actual writing until I think I've given proofreaders a fair chance. I don't think anything stops me from writing some of these scenes now except for a general discomfort with doing anything other than plan stuff.
I wonder if it's the late night showers that suddenly motivate my brain.
Yes, you're mocking me on two counts, I'm sure. No doubt questioning what kind of scene forms in my head at 2 AM on a Sunday morning, and also assuming I get 80s hair from late night showers. Go ahead, but I'll have the last laugh--and not due to thinking the slowest.
Unrelated, good on Roy Halladay. He chased no-hitters throughout his stellar tenure as a Toronto Blue Jay, sometimes being foiled by one single hit. Sometimes that one single hit lost the game. Sometimes that one single hit was in extra innings, and he was still pitching. It was frustrating to watch.
He did one better and pitched a perfect game, the 20th in the history of major league baseball.
