Outside the Zone
Jun. 23rd, 2003 06:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraAfter three weeks of not writing, started Chapter Five.
Typed "CHAPTER FIVE" all in caps. Stared at it for a while.
Typed a sentence. Wrong sentence. Deleted it. Stared at the blank page. Typed another sentence. Still no good. Hit delete. Rinse, lather, repeat.
This went on for a while.
Of course, the truth is always assuming you've reached a certain level of skill, it makes absolutely no difference to the end result how you feel about it. When you're reading it later, you won't be able to see a difference in quality between what you wrote when you were in the Zone and the stuff that came out of you like dry heaves.
Makes a helluva lot of difference to how much fun you have during the writing process though.
Typed "CHAPTER FIVE" all in caps. Stared at it for a while.
Typed a sentence. Wrong sentence. Deleted it. Stared at the blank page. Typed another sentence. Still no good. Hit delete. Rinse, lather, repeat.
This went on for a while.
Of course, the truth is always assuming you've reached a certain level of skill, it makes absolutely no difference to the end result how you feel about it. When you're reading it later, you won't be able to see a difference in quality between what you wrote when you were in the Zone and the stuff that came out of you like dry heaves.
Makes a helluva lot of difference to how much fun you have during the writing process though.
