A philosophical question

[winter]

What does one write about in Livejournal when there's nothing to write about that would be interesting to other people?

In the past few days I've managed to crack a tooth, break two nails, learn the basics of financial modelling, start arranging the four days I'll spend in Berlin in June (watching dancing vampires, of course) and chat a bit with fyrie. Work's taking up a large enough chunk of my mind that I don't have much energy left once I go home - enough to write a bit of our RP/collaborative fiction thing, read the comms I follow, and that's about it. About the only interesting thing in my real life is that I'm going to the last audition stage of the Moniuszko vocal competition on Saturday. I'm tentatively arranging to buy a Takarazuka DVD via a friend, but again, that's not of interest to anyone.

I don't see any points about meta, I'm not watching/reading/listening to anything that'd constitute a fandom other people follow, and what writing creativity I have is engaged by the aforementioned RP/collaborative fiction thing.

I'm seriously entertaining the idea of taking up drawing again just so I'll have something to post that other people can poke fun at.

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[winter]

For the moment I'm considering an improved version of "morning pages" - after a 1000 or so words of freeform writing to be discarded (which is very, very freeing - did it after today's incident and it calmed me down with a snap), 1000 words of fiction. Nanowrimo lite, sort of thing :)

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

You do morning pages, too?

And I maybe should try that sort of thing, too. I've been horribly writer's blocked lately.

[winter]

I've stumbled on the idea on several LJs recently and did it for the first time today. I think I'll make it part of my routine from now on - mornings are usually easy at work, anyway :)

Btw, have you actually read Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way"? I'm wondering whether to order it.

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

I've been doing them for nearly two years now and don't want to live without them, they've become such a part of my morning routine. They help me loads in both getting my life and mind into a better order, and in making it easier to write a lot.

I read "The Artist's Way" and worked through it a couple of years ago, that's what got me started on the morning pages. I simply loved it - in fact, in the stage of my life then, it both helped me in my writing and pretty much saved my mental health. It's hard to say whether everyone will find it equally useful, it probably depends on who you are and what's going on in your life at the moment. But the exercises are in any case helpful in exploring your creativity, and I don't know anyone who didn't like it. I also liked her "The Right to Write", lots of exercises and encouraging talk about writing.

[winter]

I think I will order it, then. It sounds incredibly nifty, though I'm usually worried about those kind of books.

[valancystar.livejournal.com]

I do recommend it. I was suspicious of it at first, but it did turn out much better than I imagined. What I like about Julia Cameron is that she makes writing (and creativity in general) be all about what you think is fun or what you want to do for whatever reason, not about attempting very seriously to do Great Art that someone else has defined as great. :D

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*ponders* Could start doing things like that, because goodness only knows I have enough scenes rolling around in my head. Most especially Caspar's stalking of Edouard, because really, nothing says love like being stalked by a psycho.

[winter]

Plus sooner or later, those little scenes do add up :)