The Writerly Update: Stupid Train Edition

[babarnett]

I haven't gotten very far on the short story rewrite I started last week, but there has been progress.  Said progress took the form of the following stages:

Stage 1: I can't do this! I don't know how to write!  I'm a hack!

Stage 2: I can totally do this.  I just need to figure out the right starting place.  Ah, there it is. 

Stage 3: Remember how you're rewriting most of this from scratch? That makes it a first draft essentially.  So stop trying to make it perfect and just keep writing already, dumbass.

Stage 4: Writing! I'm writing! I'm in the zone! I'm picking up steam and . . . crap, here's my train stop.

Comments

[ellen-denham.livejournal.com]

It's ok to miss your stop if you're busy writing! Ok, maybe not, but hopefully the "steam" will keep till the next commute.

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

It's ok to miss your stop if you're busy writing!

My employer would probably disagree, especially since I'm usually running late as it is. :)

[marshallpayne1.livejournal.com]

It'll happen! I'll bet money on it. :-)

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

*makes note to make more bets with Marshall* :p

[marshallpayne1.livejournal.com]

And it won't be Super-Sekrit Clubhouse money either! ;-)

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

If you miss your stop this time around, you can always get off next time...or the time after that. :)

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

Alas, I'm the last stop on the line, so I have no good excuse to miss it. Stupid train. Stupid lack of more hours in the day.

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Remember, when that moment of frustration hits as your train stop arrives: there's always another train ride tomorrow.

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

there's always another train ride tomorrow

Unless it's Friday. :)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the train came around, at least ;o)

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

The train's usually pretty good about that. It's that whole freezing time so I can get more writing done part it needs to work on. :)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I completely understand that...

[blood-of-winter.livejournal.com]

work schmork...although paychecks do help with things like food and housing i suppose

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

The paycheck was the one thing I missed during my enemployed bum period.

[hildebabble.livejournal.com]

Well that's a little infuriating.

Progress shouldn't be held to this "schedule" bullshit.

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

I know, right?

[musingaloud.livejournal.com]

LoL. *so* me. Except I don't ride the train.

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

If not a train, it's always something it seems. Stupid writing interruptions.

[isleburroughs.livejournal.com]

You're lucky you didn't miss your stop! :D

You're not a hack. Your characters/muses take themselves far too seriously for you to be one;o)

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

I'm the last stop on the line going to work, so it's hard to miss it. :)

[(Anonymous)]

*L*

*Phew* If it weren't the last stop on the line I'd be flying past it if I were you. I did that so many times when I was public trans. dependent I found my first college. Miami Dade CC North campus. It was the last stop on the line and I was reading. By the time I looked up I'd miss my work stop and was at the college. I was on my own and working full time and 19 yrs old. I had twenty minutes to kill and I explored the campus. At age 18 I was sick of school but after a year off the thought of going to college was interesting. It's a nice campus. Outdoor swimming pool and all. I was very glad I found it.

[babarnett.livejournal.com]

That's an entertaining way to have found a school. :)

I do have to pay attention going home on the train, but amazingly, I've only missed that stop once.

[isleburroughs.livejournal.com]

that was me:o)