A Sense of Doubt blog post #3942 - Micro-Bursts - Writing Wednesday for 2512.03

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3942 - Micro-Bursts - Writing Wednesday for 2512.03

Since I started adhering to nearly weekly WRITING WEDNESDAY posts, I have been touting the idea that progress is progress no matter what, how, or when.

I have written on this before. If all you have is fifteen minutes, then write for fifteen minutes. All progress is good progress or if not "good" progress, it's some kind of progress or at least exercising the writing muscle.

I did not write at all last week because of Thanksgiving and family visiting.

So my goal was to get back to writing this week. And I didn't the first two days of the week, so I was resolved to start today.

I had a new idea for a short story the other day.

One thing I have been wanting to do is rewrite very old stories by little known writers, like one of my favorites: Edmund Cooper.

And by rewrite, I mean completely reimagine though possibly using the same structure and some of the other aspects of the story.

And so, I started the story, which borrows some aspects from an Edmund Cooper story called "Tomorrow's Gift" but is in no way a rewrite or a reimagining of that story. Or if we're calling it a reimagining, it's a RADICAL reimagining.

I love discussing process. I recently had a process discussion with someone. One common practice, and I would love to find someone who DOES NOT work this way, is writing in one's head. Thinking time, imagining, brainstorming, and actually just writing in one's head until such a time that the text can be written out seems so fundamental to what writers do that I can't imagine that there's someone who DOES NOT do that. 

Not to say that everything to be written is dreamed in the head ahead of time. That's not only impractical but loses that sense of discovery and serendipity. And yet, some things are surely dreamed up and then written down. In part, this is how I will end up working out of order. I have various ideas for different parts of a story, a chapter, a book, and so I want to first unload what's in my head because it will only stay there for so long. I have lost really good ideas because I didn't get them written down. I feel that sense of loss. Some might say that if the idea is REALLY good that I will have it again but that's not necessarily true with all ideas.

So, success today. Started the story. A micro-burst, 15-20 minutes of writing. I can check off the to do list that I achieved writing today.

Now, to do it again tomorrow.

Next week, I have scheduled to write about the ideas on the "back burner." We'll see if I actually get that written.

Thanks for tuning in.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2512.03 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3806 days ago & DAD = 461 days ago

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