Robert Priest's Blog: Blogging not logging - Posts Tagged "writing-mechanics"

After a long day resisting writing yesterday when I finally got down to doing “just a little bit” so that I wouldn't feel completely useless I had a vision. It's a vision I had before even starting this novel of papers in the wind but yesterday it took on a meaning within the new story that pretty much thrilled me and allowed me to in good conscience click my “had a worthwhile day” button. I wasn't going to get into writing the whole scene but I did do a quick rundown of what should take place and what the mechanics of it had to be. And what was the micro story that whirled behind it. By that time I was feeling so useful I didn't even have to count the words. Then I did some work on my sonnets—strict Shakespearean sonnets mostly with rhymes and everything but no archaicisms and no syntax torturing -- in fact in hopes of achieving the effect of common speech. I don't know why. I can't completely justify it. I sometimes backpedal about it but I go on doing it nevertheless. About 15 of them. One things for sure I've noticed with writing that the more I write the more I write and you get to a point where you don't have to waste a lot of your energy on overcoming resistance you're just there in the whirlwind reaping and sowing away. once all wheels are rolling the wider fields of the mind become available, into and on job frequently just throwing stuff into your consciousness. it was like that.