In the last several weeks I realized something about how I write: I have to be sitting at the table with my pen and notebook before writing-related thoughts will take any kind of shape. I can’t plot in the shower or work on dialogue on the treadmill. I can’t even think about my characters while folding laundry! If I try to do writing-related tasks while doing anything else all I can come up with is one thought on a loop, just going round and round in my head. Yet when I sit down, open my notebook, and re-read the last couple of paragraphs words start flowing, characters start doing things, the story starts moving along. Inconvenient, isn’t it? Tell me about it…. So I’m having to do this writing thing the hard way – no multi-tasking, just straight work at the table.
Is this because my brain is still new to the whole “write while not writing” thing? Or is it simply wired that way, forcing me to concentrate on being creative and not spend the precious energy on other things? I don’t know. I know one thing, I’m getting a door hanger that says Do Not Disturb and putting it to good use.
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