Jul

7

I think most creative people have these sort of days. Days where you’d rather vacuum up all the debris from the gerbil cage then face a paragraph (and I like my gerbils, they just tend to get bedding everywhere). You want to sit down and write, but oh look the laundry needs to be put away.

Not that I’m advocating totally neglecting your housework. It’s just easy to look for anything to do besides face the page. The internet is the other great distraction. For me, I frequently have a game of Spider Solitaire running in the background.

The hardest thing is just to do it. But, I think usually, once you do get going, once you do sit down and start putting words to page, then it becomes a little easier. And I just pulled up Spider Solitare instead of finishing out this entry. So… I’m gonna wrap this up, go put the laundry away and then sit down and write. My next First Line story won’t write itself.


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  1. Sonja Foust on July 7, 2008 1:36 pm

    My house gets really clean when I have writer’s block. :)

  2. L.vazquez on July 7, 2008 2:13 pm

    its ok to take some time away from it. Allow for distractions. Just don’t get caught up in them.

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