I think it's not worth it, that my mind is tired and scattered, but most mornings I get in my writing bed and start working. Despite everything, those moments happen where a line of dialog seems perfect or a scene gets written that skips my mind and comes straight out of my hand and onto the page. And it adds up. The five thousand words on this chapter so far makes me smile a restorative smile every time I think about them.
I'm still on a borrowed computer. It's wonderful, but there won't be links or photographs on the blog for awhile. You'll have to settle for my meanderings, unadorned.
That makes total sence what your saying about the morning. Seems like a good time to slip past all the thoughts that accumulate as the day goes by. I have always been taught to meditate in the morning for the same reason. 5000 words I have no concept what that is in terms of length. How many pages would that be? How incredible! I am so eager to read your new book!
Posted by: ruth | November 11, 2008 at 06:33 AM
Yes! when it skips the brain and goes directly through the hand and onto the paper in such fashion that the writer doesn't know the thought until she has read the words on the page. Sorta like Flannery O'Connor's old lady who said "I don't know what I think until I hear what I say." I suffer that same characteristic and some times it's a little startling if I'm speaking aloud as they learn what I think at the same moment I do.
Keep at it, Sandra Gail Lambert. And you are so organized. Best to your mother, too.
SCauthen
Posted by: sudye cauthen | December 16, 2008 at 06:26 PM