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> But by the same token, a fruitful creative nugget left unpicked can quickly evaporate, and won’t be there when returned to. This is true but if you've done c
by broscillator 3y ago
> But by the same token, a fruitful creative nugget left unpicked can quickly evaporate, and won’t be there when returned to.
This is true but if you've done creative work for a while, it becomes less true, and the coinciding of "I've spent a full hour writing" and "I have this magical sentence left in me" is not frequent enough to render the rule completely moot. In fact, breaking that rule because you have a freight train of paragraphs left in you after the timer is done is one of the greatest feelings, and that alone makes the existence of the rule justified. It's really a win-win situation, and in the long term it encourages consistency and commitment.
- gizajob 3y agoI mean more the train of thought and perspective I’m in - if I’ve spent the day reading and thinking on an angle of an academic project I’m engrossed in condensing and referencing, then hard limits in terms of clock time just don’t work for me, I’ll instead just stick with it if I can and keep grinding. Some days I’ll have totally lost the thread and instead do nothing. I agree with the discipline and daily practice though, but think that his is an angle on that. I’d personally prefer a word count and a target to hit and then try and hit the word count and flex toward the target. But my days are often variable - I’m not a professor running on a similar clock every day.
- themadturk 3y agoI used to be scared of this happening with creative writing. But I find, consistently, if I leave myself a brief note, like a sentence in length, about what I envision coming next, I have no problem picking it up the next day. Yes, it may evaporate if you let it sit for days and days, don't think about it, etc. but in the heat of creation, when you can't wait to get to it again, the idea doesn't disappear.