Notes to self
Nov. 10th, 2009 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissa1. The tea rule: when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
markgritter is out of town, you must remember to make your own afternoon tea. This is a good rule.
2. The miso rule: in months when you would by default wear socks, you must have something warm with at least one and preferably two meals a day. This, too, is a good rule.
3. The salad rule: no more than one meal a day can be solely composed of cold raw vegetables, or you will wake up in the middle of the night cold and hungry. (Clarification: adding cold nuts to the cold raw vegetables is only enough for ONE meal a day. NOT TWO.) This is a very, very good rule. See how much better tonight is for these rules than yesterday was without them? Yah. Good. Remember that.
4. You can doubt yourself when you're away from the computer. Doubt yourself in the shower, doubt yourself propped up next to the stove, doubt yourself riding in the car, whatever you need to do. Not required but permitted from time to time. But at the computer you write.
5. It turns out that being funny in a book does not make it easier, as a writer, to deal with the incredibly emotionally difficult plot points you have written into it, YOU BLITHERING MORON. But it turns out not to be physically possible just yet to go back in time and shake yourself by the shoulders for plotting it that way before you knew how this year would be. And it will be better this way. It really will. But--gee, huh, why might you be avoiding writing that chapter, self? What an incomprehensible behavior! Wholly inexplicable by any means except LOGIC AND DEDUCTIVE REASONING.
Sheesh, some monkeys.
markgritter is out of town, you must remember to make your own afternoon tea. This is a good rule.2. The miso rule: in months when you would by default wear socks, you must have something warm with at least one and preferably two meals a day. This, too, is a good rule.
3. The salad rule: no more than one meal a day can be solely composed of cold raw vegetables, or you will wake up in the middle of the night cold and hungry. (Clarification: adding cold nuts to the cold raw vegetables is only enough for ONE meal a day. NOT TWO.) This is a very, very good rule. See how much better tonight is for these rules than yesterday was without them? Yah. Good. Remember that.
4. You can doubt yourself when you're away from the computer. Doubt yourself in the shower, doubt yourself propped up next to the stove, doubt yourself riding in the car, whatever you need to do. Not required but permitted from time to time. But at the computer you write.
5. It turns out that being funny in a book does not make it easier, as a writer, to deal with the incredibly emotionally difficult plot points you have written into it, YOU BLITHERING MORON. But it turns out not to be physically possible just yet to go back in time and shake yourself by the shoulders for plotting it that way before you knew how this year would be. And it will be better this way. It really will. But--gee, huh, why might you be avoiding writing that chapter, self? What an incomprehensible behavior! Wholly inexplicable by any means except LOGIC AND DEDUCTIVE REASONING.
Sheesh, some monkeys.
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Date: 2009-11-11 03:48 am (UTC)Addendum rule 6: Do not call yourself names.
But yeah, I know this one. I frequently have to remind myself that doing good things for myself is good and neglecting myself is bad. It seems simple, but apparently not so...
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Date: 2009-11-11 03:54 am (UTC)But still, this is one of those times when the elephant in the living room was hopping around on a pogo stick playing all the instruments for being a one-man elephant band. And there's me going, "Hmm, something smells slightly of peanuts, can't understand why...."
I would be clearer on what's going on in point five, but I don't want to spoil the ending of this book for, y'know, everyone who reads my lj and might care.
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Date: 2009-11-11 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-11 12:51 pm (UTC)2. If you're doing it right, events in a book inform the whole book. So skipping the reveal on one plot point until a later date does not actually change the way the whole book has to shape around it.