Third paragraph same as the second and very much like the first. Oog.
That’s how writing has gone today. Did I mention that my writing today has
been a steady murmurmur of sameness and similitude? Over and over and
over. And over. (I’m giving it a rest, that writing.)
I’m drafting an essay for
711, the net-rhets course. And I’ve been
thinking about this project for a lo-o-ong time, so it should be easy.
Yeah? I was shooting for five pages by tomorrow afternoon and, well, I’ve
popped off damn near 1800 words. All’s fine? Not so. You see,
the problem is that I’ve dashed 1000 words with a self-deprecating. Crap. Moving on…
strikethrough effect
The other string of writing: three imprecise loops saying the same thing
again and again. I’m not stuck; I can get stuff down. Familiar
stuff. Stuff I’ve already written.
***
A fresh start:
On the subject of redundancy, I flipped back to a year-old entry. April
27, 2004.
There, I tentatively hedged that I was pulling for the Detroit
Pistons to ramble through the NBA Playoffs. Why not? Didn’t jinx
them last season. I’m going with them again, with even greater conviction
this year. I’m a bit wary about the path likely to materialize: second
round match-up against the Pacers followed by an Eastern Conference Finals
match-up against the Heat. I expect the Miami series to be close, and if
Mourning continues to play well, who knows. And out of the West, maybe
Denver (long shot; more likely the Suns, I suppose). Although I haven’t
seen the Suns or the Sonics play this year. Plus, the Spurs are slamming
Denver right now, which’ll even that series 1-1.
***
Third paragraph same as the second and very much like the first. Oog.
That’s how writing has gone today. Did I mention that my writing today has
been a steady drone of sameness and similitude? Over and over and
over. And over. (I’m giving it a rest, that writing.)
I’m drafting an essay for
711, the net-rhets course. And I’ve been
thinking about this project for a lo-o-ong time, so it should be easy.
Yeah? I was shooting for five pages by tomorrow afternoon and, well, I’ve
popped off closet to 1800 words. All’s fine? No. You see,
the problem is that I’ve dashed 1000 words with a self-deprecating. Moving along…
strikethrough effect
The other bit of writing: three imprecise loops saying the same thing again
and again. I’m not stuck; I can get stuff down. Familiar stuff.
See what I mean?
Sorry to hear things aren’t coming out right. I am so glad you shared this. It lets me know that I’m not alone. This means things will come out like we want the next time we pick it up, right?
Nah, you’re not alone, Marcia. Some days writing is hard; other days, less so. Right? I’m trying to get better at pushing it even when I know it’s a bit messy and a bit rough. With some critical distance on it, we can come back, see the roughness, revise. In my Tuesday class, one of the things that came up was the connection between maturity and tolerating dissonance (rather than wholeness, total synthesis) in the reading we do during graduate school. It got me thinking that there’s something to be said for tolerating dissonance in early writing–drafting, forming.