Day Two, Brainwaves, And Disney STD Films
Day Two of the Painfully-Squeezed Internet Addiction. I got through 3.5K yesterday, a difficult scene of female violence and another difficult scene of reactions. Characters aren’t acting how I thought they would, which is a good sign. Usually when the fire of creation is burning apace, the characters start surprising me. I just have to relax enough to let the Muse tell me how it really is.
I kind of wonder what brainwaves I’m using during intense writing sessions. I am aware of the outside world, but only in a small way–the mother in me keeping tabs on who’s where and what they sound like. The rest of me is sunk in a movie of the store, watching things play out and panning the camera around, making thousands of choices per minute (is that the right word? No, this is…) and generally feeling like a racecar or a cheetah going fast and hard just as it’s designed to. I could probably explain it better, but the timer is clicking by my elbow and I’ve only got a short amount of Internet “time” today.
I suppose I should thank Jordan Summers’s recent article on the Deadline Dames, about how writers are in danger of writing around Internet time and not the other way ’round. It really lit a fire under me to stop the nascent Internet addiction in its tracks. I also recommend Dame Devon’s post on daring to be bad. (There’s a reason I’m proud to be a Deadline Dame.)
And now for something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Not too long ago I was talking with friends about propaganda cartoons–specifically, the WWII Looney Tunes propaganda cartoons featuring Stalin as “Uncle Joe.” I mentioned that I’d heard of a Walt Disney “educate the troops about VD” cartoon from wartime, but was never able to find it. The UnSullen One didn’t find that one, but he did dig up a most awesome one from the 1970s, courtesy of Jezebel. Enjoy. Don’t say I never gave you nothin’.
Off I go. Errands to run and wordcount to achieve. See you ’round, chickadees.
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Tags: Hilarity, novel madness, the internets they know everything
June 10th, 2009 at 8:49 am
“The rest of me is sunk in a movie of the store, watching things play out and panning the camera around, making thousands of choices per minute”
I love the ability to manipulate the story and sit back and watch it all happen. I think one of the reasons I started to write as a kid was because I wanted to create more of what I liked. More of that movie moments.(my first attempts at writing were Star Wars and Star Trek fanfic)
It is totally cool when you hit that moment when everything is perfectly in tune…I love those few moments when the screen sort of disapears and the typing just fads away, leaving the story and the characters to just sort of exist…with you being a fy on the wall. I’ve always equated it to the Runner’s High.Awesome!