I'm one of many. Many meaning those
people who see a minuet detail and suddenly a seed has been planted.
Quickly a world grows and blooms and if we don't tell a story about it, it's
like having creative blue balls until we can write it all down. Or is that just
me?
When I write I have my routine.
Sometimes it switches up, but really it all comes down to these:
1. Forgetting What Time Is
The second you start writing,
the clock seems to tick twice as fast. Why? Because you have fallen down the
rabbit whole of words, thoughts and feelings. Creating worlds is not only time
consuming but it requires your eyes to glass over and see nothing but
everything all at once. Which is why 2pm turns into 3am on a casual Wednesday
and all the sudden you have a beard.
2. What is showering anyway?
Yeah. Start writing and you
smell a smell. You ask yourself, "What is that...?"
It's you. You are that smell.
You've gone from hyped to ripe because you haven't moved.
3. Experiencing Sunlight in Two
Day Increments
This happens. It's a vampiric
sensation when you've huddled in your writing space for so long the sun has
come up, gone down, come up again... and you're force to go outside and see a
human face that actually exists. You open the door to welcome a new day
and it BURNS.
4. Researching the most bizarre
topics
I'm pretty sure there's some rando
in a blue checkered button up who watches my search history range from "Is
BDSM a sport?" to "Why do I see spots" or "Can horses stand
in the rain when there's lightning?" (It's not recommended by the way.)
Because I write a lot of supernatural shit I ended up searching types of
demons, demonic culture and rituals. While I personally know I'm not a threat
to society, my search history may claim otherwise.
5. Food is More of a
suggestion, right?
If you're looking to lose
weight, start writing a story you're truly passionate about. Time and time
again I start out at a mean 120 at the begining of writing a script, and end up
being a sad 112 because of muscle atrophy and forgetting your body needs more
than 300 calories a day in order to maintain functionality.
6. Feeling Hella Accomplished
AND IT'S DONE. You have
finished a script. You can venture out into the world again, claim to be a
typical, social human. Go see some movies, get too drunk at a party, take a
class... but then...
7. Feeling Hella Lost
Now what? Day's have passed...
the script needs to breathe like fine wine and there's too much space in your
brain for your own thoughts. (The horror) A little time goes by, and the script
is more and more polished as you go. And THEN...
8. Doing it all over again...
BOOM. Slapped in the face with
inspiration. Colors are brighter, the darkness of your room is enticing, the
sweatpants are on and your computer is juiced up. The whole cycle comes full
circle...
And that's what it's like to be
a writer. We are the best kind of weirdos because while we mean no harm, we
have brain power that could rip you a new butthole in one go at the inspiration
station.
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