And now, my notebooks and I will spend the day at Barnes & Noble.

[matt_doyle]

Where, my hope is, I will be able to focus enough to get some writing done. At this point I really don't care what I write - it may be fifteen pages of drabbles that go nowhere - so long as I can have a day of decent output.

Of course, I owe someone a comic book script on Saturday, so I suppose I should focus on polishing and revising that.

Yes, Clever Reader, you're right. That means I've thought about it a lot and haven't written a blessed word yet.

But then, I tend to think for a long time before I write. I call it letting the ideas 'marinate,' and to a certain extent, it truly isn't laziness, and it does help me work out the shape of what I want to write. I've just spent far too much time marinating, and not enough time in the damn kitchen, actually cooking.

So: off to fire the burners up.

Comments

[jenni-the-odd.livejournal.com]

I tend to let my ideas marinate, too. So when I produce a 'first draft', it's almost always been edited several times in my head already.

[matt_doyle]

Exactly!

[feuervogel]

Yeah, I'm sort of the same way. I've compared it to a background process in the CPU, and research I do gives it data to crunch until the notification pop-up tells me it's ready.

But I've recently learned that I have an extraverted learning style, which means I need to talk about things to figure them out. (I think there's a post on that under "navelgazing.") Otherwise, it's just this vague, nebulous sense of whatever. I find that taking a walk and focusing on something then writing it out in my head sort of works, for some things.

[matt_doyle]

Actually, I'm kind of like that too. I do my best thinking in front of an audience.

[celebros.livejournal.com]

I occasionally marinate, but this semester I've been doing it every week for my "content-rich papers" for film class. I've come out with some pretty spectacular papers - my prof heralded one of them as the best paper he's ever received from a student, in fact. He's a young teacher, but it's still nice to know marination works.