Somehow it’s already the 20th of May and I’m only three chapters into Beach Knight. Oh well, since I started imprisoning myself in the back room I’ve been more productive.
Hey guys, writing books is hard. Sometimes I stare at my outline and think, “Something more interesting should happen in this chapter” and when I try to think of something more interesting, my brain just goes blank. I don’t think I really used to have this problem. I think the brain-fog I started getting in 2021 is making this harder than it used to be.
All the more reason to forge ahead! I’ve been trying to learn to write without using my brain. I don’t contemplate too hard, I just let my subconscious cook up the ideas. I look inside my soul and see what’s there, and I type it out. This might not be the best way to write. Certainly not the way that works best for everyone, but I like to try to spend more time writing than thinking.
I think a lot of creatives spend too much time contemplating rather than doing, conceptualizing rather than creating. I spent a lot of my college life thinking about art and the meaning of art, now instead of that I just want to create! There’s a voice inside me screaming and roaring to create! I want to create! I need to create!
Heed the roar today!
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