But I think the question has to do with emerging from a different state. The second state is that pared down to the bone existence where anything that isn't either the day job or writing is dispensed with.
A friend of mine calls the all-writing-all-the-time state "being a writer nun." But that doesn't encompass the role required by one's daylighting. Emerging from the extremes of doing both really is like unfolding oneself from a kind of mental origami.
What do I do to unfold and flex? That's a really good question, and maybe I haven't done it justice. But to answer now instead of next year, for me, it is just looking at pretty things and not trying to use the part of the brain that thinks how to use what I'm seeing or feeling in the writing at hand.
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Date: 2010-02-27 01:13 am (UTC)But I think the question has to do with emerging from a different state. The second state is that pared down to the bone existence where anything that isn't either the day job or writing is dispensed with.
A friend of mine calls the all-writing-all-the-time state "being a writer nun." But that doesn't encompass the role required by one's daylighting. Emerging from the extremes of doing both really is like unfolding oneself from a kind of mental origami.
What do I do to unfold and flex? That's a really good question, and maybe I haven't done it justice. But to answer now instead of next year, for me, it is just looking at pretty things and not trying to use the part of the brain that thinks how to use what I'm seeing or feeling in the writing at hand.