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Re: Re: Write now, worry later
I'm intrigued, johnmacnab, how you can work with any quotes at all taped to your monitor.. I find I don't even see them while I'm working, unless they are right on the edge of the screen, and in the end I have to pull them off as a distraction... to each his own.. smiles. You are an inspiration and an encouragement.. meanwhile I think I'm turning into my own version of a grumpy old woman... a grumpy smiling old woman...
posted by
mneme
on November 23, 2009 at 3:51 AM
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Johnmacnab, console yourself that your fingers seem to know which buttons to push and might be a shortcut to success, lol. At least they are functioning fingers - one of the less pleasant results of working so hard on my PhD is that the fingers on my right hand (the one that handles the track ball on my laptop) are so sore sometimes that I have to strap up each joint and then strap one finger to the other - using stretchy tape of course... impresses my supervisor, a little - hey I can use all the help I can get... smiles. Have well over 100,000 words but they need reworking into some cohesive structure, ho hum..
posted by
mneme
on November 23, 2009 at 3:47 AM
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You can make it, but don't let yourself get too far behind. That makes a difficult job impossible.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 8, 2009 at 8:50 PM
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Re: Write now, worry later
Awesome, Azur. At the moment I have the following quotation by Benjamin Rush taped to my monitor 'Knowledge is of little use, when confined to mere speculation.'
Added to it will be a quotation by Azur 'Write now, worry later: Write now, polish later.'
Thank you.
posted by
johnmacnab
on November 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM
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Write now, worry later
write now, polish later
posted by
Azur
on November 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM
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Re: It's true! It's all true..
Of course Pat, you've been here before and spun a sparkling dew encrusted web of a novel. You've maybe even mentioned the eerie fingertip thingy in an earlier post, but it wouldn't ring a bell with me.
It would need to be experienced to be understood. I don't see how I can possibley keep writing 1667 words per day until the end of the month and make a novel out of it. And...if I do make it, (I should say if my fingertips make it) what happens then? Do I sit back and thank the Lord and then vegetate once more, or do I give myself my own deadline? Nuts! I'll worry about that later
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johnmacnab
on November 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM
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It's true! It's all true..
Thought springs from the fingertips. Ideas lurk in some corner of the mind until unleashed by magical contact with the keyboard. All your new characters will build into the eventual plot. I've come to think writing is something like a spider web, a few anchor lines spin out at first, and then the little connectors start hooking up, until eventually it sparkles with dew in the morning sun.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 6, 2009 at 10:24 AM
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