Last week I had a good time being creative – doing some forward planning on my next novel, playing with corkboards, images and mindmaps. Fun, fun, fun!
There were repercussions on another side of my writing, however. The practical side. The side that needed to get out one, two, maybe three blog articles on various subjects, including a couple for my own blog.
I found I couldn’t easily swap from fiction to non-fiction or from laundering basic ideas to putting something down on paper. I could not move so easily from working with images to processing words. Little snippets of words, yes. But not whole paragraphs in any semblence of order? Nu-uh!
Not that I wanted to anyway. The drive just wasn’t there, to swap my own mind out from my simmering novel to that of the real world (or second life world) necessary.
What I did find myself doing was wondering around my second life, going on a shopping treasure hunt and exploring new places. The detective work necessary in solving some of the hidden treasures on the grid-wide hunt somehow fits with the mindset necessary to create a fictional piece based on psychology and clues anyway. It was like a semi-reward for the efforts I’d entered into earlier in the week.
Now, the next week, I’ve booked an appointment with myself to continue on with the pre-planning work in a more casual way over the next few months, and perhaps aim to write the first draft in November with NaNoWriMo support. That appointment, now set in my mind, has allowed me this week, to start working back in the world of blogging and posting.
I appear to operate in a creativity vs process writing method. One versus the other. There appears little grey width in-between where I can tackle both. This is fine with me, however, as it makes for easier goal setting and writing targets for this fresh month of May.
These posts may also be of interest:
Mon, May 4, 2009
Personal Writing Journey