No, I've never had a problem with sitting in a physical sense. Sitting in front of the computer, sitting in front of the television, sitting in front of the Lincoln Center fountain while tourists take pictures; I've done all these things.
But sitting down to write - man, how do I justify that?
Sure, I have a million things I need to be doing instead of writing. I need to do laundry. I need to vaccuum. I need to read those books I just bought. I need to level up on Aveyond 2. I need to ... why don't I ever say "I need to write."
Weird, because I really do need to write. I get the overstuffed, jumbled head feeling when I have too many ideas lolling around in my noggin. I get dreamy-eyed and lose focus and finally commit acts of great weirdness and frivolity. But I haven't given myself permission to get my butt in the chair and write.
I'm hoping this blog will prove to be a catalyst, a motivator, a sharp poke in the back, spurring me forward along the path that - as metaphysical as it sounds - was chosen for me.
Here's hoping.
Next time, we'll talk about the myth that "words on a page are permanent".
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Getting Your Butt In The Chair
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Heather,
Do you think it's because the great "they" of society don't believe that writing is "producing" anything? So we feel that when we're writing our stories, we not being productive.
You can say, I cleaned the entire apartment, isn't it wonderful and get "Ooos" and "Ahhs." "They" call that being productive.
Only other writers know that wonderful feeling of accomplishment when you've written even one page of fairly decent, not really-crap, prose. Non-writers would say, "Yeah, but did you take out the garbage..."
Remember the scene from "Romancing the Stone" when Joan Wilder finishes her book and cries from the emotions she'd just written. She searches her apartment for a tissue, paper towel, toilet paper - nothing. She had "neglected" the real world to write.
And that's the writer's right and we should never apologize for it.
I need to take my own advice
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