Maybe it's because of springtime, you know, all that fertility busting out all over. Finally, this year.
I am tinkering with the ending of a third book, and having a lot of trouble getting started on the next project. I talk to someone and get a great idea for a poem, story, chapter, and i can't wait to start working on that as a current project. The next day, it happens again. Consequently, my Work-in-Progress smart stick keeps getting loaded upper, but I am not really progressing any work. The thing is, my brain gets twitterpated with each of these new ideas. I don't know about anybody else, but i know for a fact that my mind has a mind of its own. I'm worried I may not be able to get the thing under control before the dog-days of August, when it has the excuse of seasonal lethargy. I removed the cushion from my desk chair, you know, so the "Apply Butt to Chair" process adopts an additional degree of intimacy. Gave me a pain in the butt in mutual exclusivity from the twitterpation process. I tried banging my head against the closet door and all I did was knock the rollers out of the track. I need a headache pill that induces migraines, or on demand writer's block. Good luck with that. Springtime.
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Tad Chamberlain
4/29/2013 08:12:03 am
Good post today! I hear ya about being overrun with ideas. Time to let ot run and be the "vision guy." Leave the ornery details til later. Maybe you could use an XO; I can remember wishing I had a catcher's mitt to field all the details...:). But get busy. I just finished Sundown Town, and am anxious for another.
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