The battle between the left and the right
Friday, November 28th, 2008 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniIt is Said that creative folk are right-brained; they don't deal well with organizational challenges, or things requiring step-by-step, by-the-numbers kind of reasoning.
Like most things in life, this is only sorta true. I, for instance, appear to have a right brain/left brain toggle up there in the Control Room. At need, I can organize like a sumbitch; this is, after all, how I've most often made a weekly paycheck: organizing stuff for people who for whatever reason Don't Do That.
However, when I am Truly Immersed in a story, all bets are off. Important Pieces of Paper(tm) get lost; checks don't get written on time; and I forget how to do Perfectly Simple Things.
...and that, in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen, is why it is so difficult for me to write after doing the stint at the day-job. Getting over to the right brain after a day of left-braining isn't as easy as it used to be. Well. Used to be that I could slip back and forth from one side to t'other like a guppy through jello (euwwww). But no more. I think I need brain-toggle oil.
In other news, and despite various software sabotages, Fledgling proceeds, if not apace, then at a good stiff stride. Subplots have been strengthened, motivations have been beaten into shape out of thin air, and I am Cautiously Optimistic regarding the outcome of the four-day of work, during which I will most earnestly try not to lose my car keys.
Like most things in life, this is only sorta true. I, for instance, appear to have a right brain/left brain toggle up there in the Control Room. At need, I can organize like a sumbitch; this is, after all, how I've most often made a weekly paycheck: organizing stuff for people who for whatever reason Don't Do That.
However, when I am Truly Immersed in a story, all bets are off. Important Pieces of Paper(tm) get lost; checks don't get written on time; and I forget how to do Perfectly Simple Things.
...and that, in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen, is why it is so difficult for me to write after doing the stint at the day-job. Getting over to the right brain after a day of left-braining isn't as easy as it used to be. Well. Used to be that I could slip back and forth from one side to t'other like a guppy through jello (euwwww). But no more. I think I need brain-toggle oil.
In other news, and despite various software sabotages, Fledgling proceeds, if not apace, then at a good stiff stride. Subplots have been strengthened, motivations have been beaten into shape out of thin air, and I am Cautiously Optimistic regarding the outcome of the four-day of work, during which I will most earnestly try not to lose my car keys.
