Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Waiting for Writing ... and Percolating those Ideas

So one of the things I'm doing is keeping a specific hour for writing, or at least for looking at and thinking about what I'm doing. There's some chatter in the online writing world about how saving up for that one hour (or 15 minutes, or whatever slot people use) yields fresher, more distilled, better stuff ... rather than putting it down the minute it hits your brain. I can see the logic -- you're ready to write, you're excited and you're putting down (hopefully) your best. On the other side -- you're losing ideas if you don't write them down, you're forcing energy where it may not want to go, you're striking while the iron has perhaps gotten less hot.

For now, my answer is make very rough stabs as fast as possible when they hit and then still maintain that excitement for refining it when the Golden Time arrives. So hopefully ideas are outlined, percolated and improved. Though as percolators have gone the way of the Oldsmobile and the typewriter, maybe I need a new word ...

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