120608 Friday: DO ME.

[0jack]

Does your writing ever nag you to get it done?

Poll #10779

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Today's original fiction work included:

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adding to my word count
1 (25.0%)

research, world building, character development
3 (75.0%)

plotting, outlining, rough notes
1 (25.0%)

discussing or writing about my WIP
0 (0.0%)

daydreaming or working in my head
2 (50.0%)

editing my original fiction
0 (0.0%)

meta: reading about, writing about, or discussing writing
1 (25.0%)

meta: queries, submissions, contracts, taxes, etc.
0 (0.0%)

things external to but necessary for writing (sorting, filing, cleaning)
0 (0.0%)

something I will share in comments
0 (0.0%)

none of the above and that's okay
0 (0.0%)

none of the above and I need help/advice/hugs in comments
0 (0.0%)

How did you do in terms of meeting your goals today?

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Mean: 3.00 Median: 3 Std. Dev 2.00

Don't ask! 1		1 (50.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		1 (50.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		0 (0.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
I would like a trophy! 10		0 (0.0%)

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[jade1459]

Strangely yes, my writing does nag at me. Sometimes that means I will go days without sleep while I write and then go to work and then come back home and write some more. Other times it means I make vaguely flailing motions at my family to let them know I'm still alive and should ignore the mess/smell coming from my office (old tea, stale smoke, and half eaten meals).

I'm starting into one of those phases right now. Between the research (which has eaten up most of my paper and ink supplies) and the fact that I'm running out of room on The Idea Wall (an actual wall in my house which has seen more coats of paint and that putty stuff used to fill holes in dry wall than the rest of the walls in my house combined). I'm actually looking forward to the sleepless-isolated weeks of frantic writing that will come if I can ever come up with a viable outline.

[konsectatrix]

I miss those days. I did it for art and writing alike, all through growing up and into college.

Am a parent now, so I can't get away with it so much. Not so much that I say "I'm not allowed" so much as I literally can't--I am going to get interrupted if someone needs me, I do have to provide dinner, my spouse will make me go to bed because I have to be functional to make the other stuff happen, and also, because he will start missing me after a while.

But yeah, the drive is there, and tends to make me cranky at everyone.