It's a very balmy 65+ degrees here in the South today. Not to rub anyone's nose in it.
Actually, we're at a point here in Connecticut that we're damned either way...we have so much snow, everyday brings new reports of roofs caving in (so far no human fatalities, but two race horses died when the barn they were in collapsed, and two days later a couple of cows died when the same thing happened to a dairy barn)...
Everyone is praying for Spring, or at least "The February Thaw", but if it warms up too quickly we'll end up with flooding, and if it rains instead of snows, the existing snow will just absorb it and cause more roof collapses. But another big snowstorm -- like what is predicted midweek in these parts -- will be just as bad.
The best thing for us at this point is a slight warming -- high 30s to 40s would do -- so that the existing snow can start to melt, and also that there be no more snowstorms.
I find that I have two basic ways of writing. One is to wake up early and allow the Muse to crawl in bed behind me and talk dirty into my ear while I'm slowly waking.
Maybe it's because I'm not a morning person, but I rarely get inspired upon awakening; my time is when I'm drifting off to sleep, I'll actually get flashes of images like a movie playing in my mind.
The other time the Muse creeps up on me is if I'm engaged in some boring task...it's like one portion of the brain is engaged with the repetitive task, leaving the more creative portion to soar where it will...
I also have gotten ideas driving, but since I'm now unemployed I don't have the daily commute I used to...
The other way is to sort of work myself up into an angsty, brooding lather, by watching flicks like the one here.
I actually hate that clip! LOL
I'm not sure if "angsty" works for me per se, and definitely watching movies does NOT do it for me.
But I do find writing therapeutic if I'm in a funk, and have used it as a form of psychotherapy ever since I first started writing back in junior high days! I think it's because I get broody and moody and then basically get into a zen meditation state where ideas just flood in...
But when I look at something like this, and I allow the idea of pain, and sorrow, and the twisting, gnawing grief of the inevitable slash at my gut, I am capable of writing some fairly good stuff.
Like I said, watching a movie doesn't do it for me. But I understand about the idea of pain and sorrow building up to the point that creativity bursts out. When I first started writing my own fan fiction I was driving home from work one night, thinking about the whole story arc (which covers decades)...
And I got this clear flash in my mind -- again, they were actual images like watching a movie -- of a section of the story that is going to happen well into the "future" (which is actually the past, but that's a whole other subject), and it's a really sad portion, it's actually tragic, and before I knew it I had tears streaming down my cheeks as I was driving, it was so sad....but good, in that I now have that portion of the story written in my head, but tragically good, if that makes sense?
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Actually, we're at a point here in Connecticut that we're damned either way...we have so much snow, everyday brings new reports of roofs caving in (so far no human fatalities, but two race horses died when the barn they were in collapsed, and two days later a couple of cows died when the same thing happened to a dairy barn)...
Everyone is praying for Spring, or at least "The February Thaw", but if it warms up too quickly we'll end up with flooding, and if it rains instead of snows, the existing snow will just absorb it and cause more roof collapses. But another big snowstorm -- like what is predicted midweek in these parts -- will be just as bad.
The best thing for us at this point is a slight warming -- high 30s to 40s would do -- so that the existing snow can start to melt, and also that there be no more snowstorms.
I find that I have two basic ways of writing. One is to wake up early and allow the Muse to crawl in bed behind me and talk dirty into my ear while I'm slowly waking.
Maybe it's because I'm not a morning person, but I rarely get inspired upon awakening; my time is when I'm drifting off to sleep, I'll actually get flashes of images like a movie playing in my mind.
The other time the Muse creeps up on me is if I'm engaged in some boring task...it's like one portion of the brain is engaged with the repetitive task, leaving the more creative portion to soar where it will...
I also have gotten ideas driving, but since I'm now unemployed I don't have the daily commute I used to...
The other way is to sort of work myself up into an angsty, brooding lather, by watching flicks like the one here.
I actually hate that clip! LOL
I'm not sure if "angsty" works for me per se, and definitely watching movies does NOT do it for me.
But I do find writing therapeutic if I'm in a funk, and have used it as a form of psychotherapy ever since I first started writing back in junior high days! I think it's because I get broody and moody and then basically get into a zen meditation state where ideas just flood in...
But when I look at something like this, and I allow the idea of pain, and sorrow, and the twisting, gnawing grief of the inevitable slash at my gut, I am capable of writing some fairly good stuff.
Like I said, watching a movie doesn't do it for me. But I understand about the idea of pain and sorrow building up to the point that creativity bursts out. When I first started writing my own fan fiction I was driving home from work one night, thinking about the whole story arc (which covers decades)...
And I got this clear flash in my mind -- again, they were actual images like watching a movie -- of a section of the story that is going to happen well into the "future" (which is actually the past, but that's a whole other subject), and it's a really sad portion, it's actually tragic, and before I knew it I had tears streaming down my cheeks as I was driving, it was so sad....but good, in that I now have that portion of the story written in my head, but tragically good, if that makes sense?