– I don’t know the onomatopoeic spelling of how I feel right now. It’s something like
nyurrrgh
if that comes across as a positive sound. A birthing kind of sound.
I wrote 21 pp. on my WIP yesterday, and 22 today. 52 pp. total this week. I feel like my fingertips are splitting open to reveal this creative burst that’s trying to claw out of me.
Do you ever feel this way?
*sigh*
In other news, my lefthand Shift key on my keyboard is only working intermittently. I have to really mash the hell down on it to make it work. I Googled the issue and didn’t find much about other iBook G4 users having similar problems. Maybe I just need a new keyboard. I wish I could retrain my hands to start using the righthand Shift key, but that seems totally impossible. The left one is the one I use. But it’s failing.
Yeah, that’s all I have to say for now. I hope you’re all doing lovely and writing your hearts out.
7 responses so far ↓
littlebirdblue // February 13, 2007 at 3:36 am
hey. I think you’ve stolen all my writing mojo.
Lexi // February 15, 2007 at 1:11 am
Woohoo! Go, Catherine! Good luck with it and send a little of that mojo back to little bird blue, would ya?
littlebirdblue // February 15, 2007 at 3:11 am
Thanks, Lexi! I think there’s enough to go ’round, if we all share…
Catherine Avril Morris // February 15, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Miss littlebirdblue, I’ve been meaning to say, you had it for SO long, I thought it’d be okay to steal it for a few weeks…
No, but seriously. I know you don’t like needles and don’t want to try acupuncture. But if you ever come around to it, the spleen (which, in Chinese medicine, I think is different from your actual spleen) is related to ideas and thinking and overthinking and, therefore, creativity. My recent asthma crap involved a spleen deficiency, so my acupuncturist has been working on building up my spleen. And at the very same time, my ideas came back and I started writing like a madwoman, after months of not. So, I’m thinking acupuncture is good for my writing career…and maybe you should get some too.
That is the end of my diatribe.
I hope your mojo comes back soon. I like you with writing mojo. I like thinking of you sitting at your desk, snow outside, dogs slumbering, while you feverishly create and destroy worlds.
Catherine Avril Morris // February 15, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Thank you, Lexi!! You’ve been doing great with your 100-day challenge too. Hmm, maybe you should send some mojo littlebird’s way too…?
Alyssa Goodnight // February 17, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Yay! Glad it’s coming fast and furious. You described kinda how I felt when I was doing ‘Fast Draft’–such a weird feeling, but really, really good.
Catherine Avril Morris // February 19, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Alyssa, isn’t it weird but good?? Man. My mojo slowed a little last week (lots of busy-ness to attend to). I’m hoping to get back into that space this week, though, and type “The End” on Thursday.
And to help that happen, I’ve planned out my blocks of writing time from now till then, including how much I think I can write within each block. Nice, achievable amounts, not outrageous ones. I’m banking on the idea that the obvious counter-theory to “failing to plan is planning to fail” must be “succeeding to plan is planning to succeed.”
Uh. The wording doesn’t work as well in the counter-theory, but the sentiment is there.