10:09 pm January 17, 2010Focus
WHOOOOOOOOSHHHHHH….
That’s the sound of a thousand ideas swirling around in my brain. Those ideas are all colliding with one another. Some are salsa dancing. The rowdier ideas are “crunking” with each other. It’s pretty out of control up there.
Creative flood gates have been opened. Stuff is multiplying, pouring out, overflowing… and my inability to focus and control it is wreaking some havoc.
Mostly in my kitchen. (And my desk… sweet baby Moses, the poor desk again.) Because creative ideas don’t give a care about the dishes, nor about the piles of unread mail. Creative ideas are all, “Suz, write me down!” and then others are all, “No, write ME down!”… and then the ideas go all fistacuffs with each other, and I don’t know what to write down.
So sometimes I just stand in my messy kitchen and stare at the desk.
Focus, people. I need focus. Any one of the ideas could be really great if I could follow it through all the way. I’ve been typing away on my YA fantasy novel, forcing myself to power through the crap. I don’t know how published writers do it… hunker down and get through the crap. It’s like a Jedi mind trick that I haven’t yet grasped. (I’m still a padawan in many respects.) And today, Jachin gave me an idea for a picture book that is GOLD, baby. I asked him if I could steal it. He said sure, if I agreed to pay him $5. He later re-thought the math and told me I had to give him 25% of all profits once it’s published. (He’s sharp, that one.) Plus I still haven’t thought of anything stellar to submit for the Highlights contest this month, and I’m also trying to figure out something for another contest.
My attention is too scattered.
This post is even scattered.
I should probably be on medication for that.
Ow, my brain.
Ok, my attention is now turning back to my warring ideas. May the best idea win.
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