Wednesday, April 18, 2007

ut oh, done with that. Now what?

only 641 words. The husband came in talking, so I got him to turn the light on. I love spell check. I wish I could have it here. I can not spell. I am always using ( ) when writing on computer, not so much in notebook. The dash rules my notebook writing. They are everywhere, and also I only use so many words on a line, breaking up thoughts and ideas, as need be, traveling down the page. (I'm not so much into periods, or paragraphs- just dashes and jumping down a line. a new paragraph is a totally different topic, a different idea, another day), But dashes take too much time for me to type in, so I resort to the more common comma. But I prefer the dash. And I can't use tons of paper and have my ideas take up so much space that it is hard to collect them, so I am forced to keep things on the same line, which changes the flow. And then I don't seem to know where to stop and start, my words huddle in massive clumps. Heaps? And I notice I am not so much with the question mark either (am I too shy to ask?). I am trying to use it more, but the thing is, though I am often questioning, I am not often asking.

It could be I am procrastinating now.
Who's afraid of the big bad draft, big bad draft, big bad draft?
The big bad first draft?
I am.

Actually, I should organize the printed pages- I have plenty of others I printed out and haven't added in either. I need to cut them apart, and add them to the boards according to where they belong, so when I do the draft, everything will already be where it is supposed to be, and it will be easier to make sure I don't forget anything (I already have a lot of boards with a lot of words, it will be a pain to get them all out, and find where this stuff fits in, and find space for it. Seriously I don't feel like doing it, at the moment. Probably not at any moment). Many writers, don't do this, they just write it. For the second draft maybe I could do that. I don't know, to me that would feel like jumping off a cliff, you just go.. who knows where you are going, where the wind will carry you, where you will land (what's the weather forecast? Be it flying and falling, falling and flying. Flapping and flopping). Yeah, that is not so much me, I am freaking out plenty, and I do have a map. I know plenty about the journey already. And still I am so scared. (damn it, the ipod batteries just went).
Time to move on.
Your call, dishes or cut and paste?
ugh..

No comments: