I\u2019ve been working on a story for a while. It is in the 1980s, so I\u2019ve put together a nice list of 1980s music I like and have been immersing myself in it for weeks. It\u2019s pretty fun. I\u2019ve even be listening to it while writing, to deepen the immersion. Well… Yeah… It didn\u2019t entirely work. Not saying it wasn\u2019t fun or anything. But I have spent years putting together a list of songs that I write with. Songs that drive me and help to keep me focused.<\/p>\n
I mean I like the story, but it wasn\u2019t really DRIVING me. So last night I went to sleep and did not turn on my alarm. I woke up when I woke up, went to my computer, turned on my normal writing music, and went to work. Whelp. After several hours of pounding away at the keys, I had found the end of the story I was looking for and got up to stretch and relax and go do things not writing for an hour or so to clear my head. Now that I have the end written, I can go back through everything I wrote before it and see what stays and what goes. I\u2019m thinking most will stay, but there are some words that will change as I now know exactly where to point to make the end hit just a little bit harder.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s amazing the ways we learn to write and the mechanisms we put in place to do it. I never needed them when I was younger. My mind was never out of focus for writing. I could always do it. Even when I didn\u2019t want to. Now I have to focus on it. And I\u2019ve found good ways to do it. I\u2019m glad they are available to me. We have built an amazing world to live in, and I pray to God that we can give it to our children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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