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Jun 23
2010
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I'm like Pooh Bear. Writing ideas come and find me whether I'm ready or not so I end up backlogged with them. Sometimes that is annoying. You can be churning along with a novel chapter and P L I N G, a totally different story or idea pops into mind. It 's like a dog gnawing on a delicious bone when a tennis ball comes rolling along in front of you. What do you do: gnaw or drop the bone and chase the ball?
Tough choice, so you hold the bone in your teeth and frantically search for a piece of paper and a pencil to record where the ball goes. Sometimes though, the bone loses flavor.
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Erin Wilcox
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Too True Peggy, thanks for the post! For all the talk out there of how great it is to multitask, I do best when putting all my concentration into one thing at a given moment. Inspired by Anne Lamott's method in Bird by Bird, I even keep an empty picture frame on my writing desk to remind me that my focus must be on one scene at a time, one word at a time, one moment at a time. The other piece is trusting that all those moments of effort will eventually come together. |
Jan Strasser
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I Wish I Could Stop the Multitasking, too I never seem to have the one track time period. I always have other concerns pop up! I think it is partly subconscious, a fear of actually having to see a finished project. Three cheers for our efforts, keep plugging away! |
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