Touché, Max. And in older age, the bitterness can be a sweet reminder of earlier times once forgotten. BTW I’m enjoying Wicked Problems. It’s the best part about recovering at home from Covid!
Excellent as always. Our yoga teacher says the same: "stretch yourself to your limit, but not beyond." Under limit, you're bored, it's easy for your mind to wander. Beyond the limit, you get injured. Goldilocks zone, over and over.
I am in a rare, blissful period, where regular writing is not a struggle. Every week or so, I run a game. The next day, or the day after, I write the next scene. I don't push myself to write beyond, but I always do write, part inspired by the previous day's game, part nervous about not having something ready for next time. Last week, I wrote the third to last chapter of the campaign, and sketched out the second to last one.
I don't know what changed, how I went from bitterness and frustration to a happy cadence; but I certainly am much happier now than either when a) I was focusing on word count, or b) not writing at all. Who knows what's next?
Touché, Max. And in older age, the bitterness can be a sweet reminder of earlier times once forgotten. BTW I’m enjoying Wicked Problems. It’s the best part about recovering at home from Covid!
Excellent as always. Our yoga teacher says the same: "stretch yourself to your limit, but not beyond." Under limit, you're bored, it's easy for your mind to wander. Beyond the limit, you get injured. Goldilocks zone, over and over.
I am in a rare, blissful period, where regular writing is not a struggle. Every week or so, I run a game. The next day, or the day after, I write the next scene. I don't push myself to write beyond, but I always do write, part inspired by the previous day's game, part nervous about not having something ready for next time. Last week, I wrote the third to last chapter of the campaign, and sketched out the second to last one.
I don't know what changed, how I went from bitterness and frustration to a happy cadence; but I certainly am much happier now than either when a) I was focusing on word count, or b) not writing at all. Who knows what's next?