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thread: 2006-02-16 : Throwing It Open: Pulling the Plug

On 2006-02-18, Ben Lehman wrote:

So after the rather strange reference to me, here's what I actually do:

I sit down with my computer in front of me.  I pull up a couple of word documents —either seperate parts of one project I'm working on or a few different projects.  I try to write on these.  If I get into a roll, I close the other ones and I write and write and write on that one.

Which one is pretty random, as far as I can tell.  It's definitely beyond willful control.

If I don't have it in me to write that day, which is about 2/3rds of the time right now, I just do some piddly editing on a couple of things, tool around with D&D builds, or screw around on the net.

A project is: A blog post, a game, a short story, a novel, my resume, job cover letters, letters to folks, etc.  I try to keep a pretty open spread of things to be working on at any given time.  Just today I did some fiddly editing for Drifter's Escape (I forgot to credit Ron!  What a dork I am!) and wrote 700 words on "The Wise King and Frost's Boy" which is a short-story/novella length thing I've been working on for a while, part of a collection of stories.  I'm hoping to get something else done today, 'cause 1000 words really isn't enough.

So, for instance, when I say I've been stuck in Bliss Stage, it's just that I haven't been writing it for the last few weeks, despite wanting to.

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—Ben

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