There Are Days
There are days much like today that no matter what you do, things just don't work out right. I spent many hours today straightening out computer problems that should never have happened. These days most definitely interfere with our desire to be productive. We shouldn't let them get the better of us, though.
Some days, we just can't write. We still want to get some basic ideas down on paper, however. We can always fix these ideas later. We must just make sure that we don't lose what we have on our minds at this point. At some future date, we may decide that we don't have any need for what we did today. On the other hand, though, we should never waste an idea.
If we get a basic idea down, we can always embellish the idea with fancy language later. If, for some reason, the sunset is important to me today. I might jot down a few lines about sunsets in general. When it comes time to edit, I might be able to remember what it was that caused me to write those lines enough that I can expand on them and create the effect I was looking for in the first place.
Even if we do some dumb stuff, we can write notes to ourselves. We can say things like this. At this point, character A is going to meet character B. There will be some corny bar scene where his pick up line had one in a million chance of working, but for some reason, the line did work. They arrange to meet the next day.
Later we can come back and decide exactly what the corny pick up line was and we can provide some backup as to why she allowed it to work. If we don't make these notes, though, we might never be able to move on. If we don't write these notes, we might find ourselves taking a different course during our next writing session because we didn't use our place holders today.
Even when life gets in the way, make your notes. Even when it isn't your best writing, don't let the ideas get away. Get them down. Everything else is fixable at a later date.
Some days, we just can't write. We still want to get some basic ideas down on paper, however. We can always fix these ideas later. We must just make sure that we don't lose what we have on our minds at this point. At some future date, we may decide that we don't have any need for what we did today. On the other hand, though, we should never waste an idea.
If we get a basic idea down, we can always embellish the idea with fancy language later. If, for some reason, the sunset is important to me today. I might jot down a few lines about sunsets in general. When it comes time to edit, I might be able to remember what it was that caused me to write those lines enough that I can expand on them and create the effect I was looking for in the first place.
Even if we do some dumb stuff, we can write notes to ourselves. We can say things like this. At this point, character A is going to meet character B. There will be some corny bar scene where his pick up line had one in a million chance of working, but for some reason, the line did work. They arrange to meet the next day.
Later we can come back and decide exactly what the corny pick up line was and we can provide some backup as to why she allowed it to work. If we don't make these notes, though, we might never be able to move on. If we don't write these notes, we might find ourselves taking a different course during our next writing session because we didn't use our place holders today.
Even when life gets in the way, make your notes. Even when it isn't your best writing, don't let the ideas get away. Get them down. Everything else is fixable at a later date.
posted by Vickie at 9:47 PM
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