My other life
May. 20th, 2003 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radegundMy normal pattern of working on The Novel, so far, is to have a few days or weeks of progress, and then anything up to several months of a more or less predictable mood arc, stretching from intense self-satisfaction, through optimism, unfocused determination, niggling frustration and curtain-chewing irritability, finishing up with a feast of self-excoriation in glum sauce, served on a bed of blank and soul-crumpling despair - at which point the only way to make myself feel better is to open the fucking file and add to it already.
I think I'm currently at the "niggling frustration" stage, and I'm trying hard to short-circuit the rest of the cycle. (My curtains won't stand much more abuse.) It would be nice, for once, not to have to reduce myself to a tearful, sleep-deprived heap before I'll go near the beast again.
So, a two-pronged attack: (1) Attempt to avoid, for as long as possible, the equation of Not Writing with Bad Radzer - because that's completely counterproductive. (2) Institute a reward system, say per 1000 words. Ideas welcome!
(And it'll get done. Eventually. And really, when it comes down to it, on the grand scale of things, who - other than me, and I'm biased - gives a fuck whether I finish my novel in 2003 or 2004 - or 2010?)
I think I'm currently at the "niggling frustration" stage, and I'm trying hard to short-circuit the rest of the cycle. (My curtains won't stand much more abuse.) It would be nice, for once, not to have to reduce myself to a tearful, sleep-deprived heap before I'll go near the beast again.
So, a two-pronged attack: (1) Attempt to avoid, for as long as possible, the equation of Not Writing with Bad Radzer - because that's completely counterproductive. (2) Institute a reward system, say per 1000 words. Ideas welcome!
(And it'll get done. Eventually. And really, when it comes down to it, on the grand scale of things, who - other than me, and I'm biased - gives a fuck whether I finish my novel in 2003 or 2004 - or 2010?)
