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I have a number of writing assignments I need to finish over the next week, a task that has been rendered considerably more difficult by the fact that my hard drive needs repairing and I cannot locate the install disk. But the real challenge is getting back into a groove. I'm always startled by how quickly I lose my writerly momentum. One week away from having to produce finished products and my authorial capacities begin to tighten up. Three weeks away, as is presently the case, and I start to wonder whether I'll ever be able to get "hot" again. Even this kind of one-paragraph report is coming hard at the moment. Still, it's not like this is the first time I've struggled in this way. I suppose my insistence on staying engaged in projects that might seem extraneous to my interests or goals derives from the realization that I need that sort of regular and semi-detached production in order to be able to write effectively about what I do care deeply about.

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Date: 2010-06-11 06:48 am (UTC)

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e4q.livejournal.com

regular

i have noticed that blogging has meant that when i have to write anything else my prose flows much more easily than before i took it up.

Date: 2010-06-11 07:05 am (UTC)

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Re: regular

Totally. That's one of the reasons I started my LJ, as opposed to just passively consuming the journals of my friends. And it definitely helped me, as the breadth and number of the pieces I published from 2004 onward indicates. Part of the problem now is that I keep thinking I should be doing the have-to writing instead of what I would do here, which is a paralytic mode of approaching the problem of getting momentum.