Adventures in the Mind
Glenn is home! We’ve been busy ripping up the floor, repainting the ceiling, repairing the plumbing, and (unfortunately) not fixing the leaks. Just making our home roadworthy.
AND my precious Jeep, which needed a $450 repair that I was procrastinating, is getting the repair for $150. (Massive over-charging on the part of awful RadAir. I knew it!) I’ll feel a lot better about driving across the United States once that’s done.
I’d like to say that’s the reason I haven’t been around the blogosphere, but it’s more that I have blogger’s block. I can’t think of anything to blog about. Suggestions?
And I’m 493 posts behind in Google Reader.
In the meantime, I’m bored. As a writer, do you ever get sick of being in your head? I mean, we’re always writing these stories and living in these worlds and making friends with these characters. And we can NEVER “really” live in the world we’ve created. We can never “really” hang out with our characters.
Some days, I get sick of living in my head. I don’t know if it’s the writing or these stories that will not end or the fact that I’m working on book 5 of a series.
I’d really like to get three stories finished this week and next (one is a polish, re-arrange and 4K away; one is a polish, re-arrange and 2K away; one is about 16K away), so that when we get to South Dakota, I can vacation for a week, clear my head.
When I get like this, it’s because I’m really going through movie withdrawal. But I’m saving up because I can’t wait to see Whip It! this weekend.
And gosh, can I just say? I miss playing the piano desperately.
How do you balance living in your head with clearing your head? How often do you need to clear your head? How do you clear your head?
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Natasha Fondren is a writer traveling the U.S. in a camper with her four cats. She is currently enjoying the lizards and desert heat in Arizona.
I think that the only time I really was living in my head was my first book. Was doing it 24/7/365.
As for clearing my head, I do the chat rooms and read the 70 something blogs I follow. I try to do a complete go around on the blogs at least three times to week. And I go to the library at least once a week as well. And I switch off a lot between writing blog posts in a notebook and writing on the computer
As for suggestions, since I don’t quite know how long you been blogging or writing, how ’bout doing a multi post bio of yourself, covering what you do as a writer (what you got published perhaps, or why you write what you write)?
G, that rocks! I would love to have that again. I wish I could manage to focus that long.
Wow, I’ve never tried writing a blog post on paper. That’s a cool idea! Huh, my writing story is pretty boring: I’m a little kinky, and one of my kinky pubs had a contest one year. I won honorable mention and never stopped writing it. I’m trying to expand into something NY-able, but evidently I seem to have a one-track mind. I love writing and reading with all my heart!
I’ll tell you what, you can do like I do and post about nothing much. It seems to feed the hopper so that, eventually, something comes out to blog about. And I read science news websites and post about ideas a lot…which is really just me preventing me from starting yet another project when I have so many ones started and abandoned!
I’m glad Glen is home. And I’m glad you have a cheaper fix for the jeep. Yay for cheaper fixes!
And to get yourself started writing, why don’t you write an entry for my Halloween contest? http://writtenwyrdd.typepad.com/writtenwyrdd/2009/09/announcing-a-contest.html
You always have such interesting tidbits, though, Written! I’ll think about the contest… I’m sort of burned out on writing projects. I mean, I have so much I “should” be writing, that thinking of writing something else makes me want to have a panic attack, LOL!
And I got talking so much I forgot to say that yes I do get sick of my own head. It’s my “It’s all crap” phase. I’m trying to get back into writing after the surgery, and I’m about capable (I think) of actually concentrating. Might be because my back feels much better after a lovely massage tonight!
Oh YAY! For both the massage and the feeling better! And I hear you about that phase…
I love to clear out my poor brainie wainie. I do it by books on tape, watching shows on my i pod, bike riding, jogging, going to the gym. Oh! And reading magazines! That’s a certain enjoyable head cleaner. Some people meditate, but I’m not very good at that. I think you should download onto your computer and watch stupid stuff.
Robin, books on tape ROCK! Goodness, you’re active. I need to get back to that. My only exercise, lately, is lugging the bucket up and down the hill when I do dishes.
I’m terrible at meditating, LOL! I struggle to just do yoga; I’ll get up from a pose and wander wherever before I even realize I’ve stopped doing yoga! Meditation is worse; I go bonkers inside!
I watched 3 hours of TV tonight, something I never do. That cleared my head! Walking the dog clears it, too. Just being on the Internet, which I spend too much time doing, clears my head.
Glad everything is moving forward for you. Even your writing. I wondered how you’d feel away from a piano. Big hugs! How about taking up harmonica playing?
Nice, Edie! I like watching TV when there’s some TV to watch. (Seasons have been so short lately, that weeks with a new episode are a minority.)
I THOUGHT of taking up the harmonica. Seriously! Am also thinking of renting a violin or something.
I exercise a lot.
That used to be a total lifesaver for me! Gosh, I want that life back!
Exercise usually helps me, but I haven’t been able to do much of that lately. I’m baby-stepping back into it.
As for blog ideas, I haven’t felt quite as blocked as I was, but I still struggle for ideas sometimes.
Baby-stepping is good, Melanie! How is the toe feeling?
I’ve been completely blocked, blog-wise. I come up with an idea, but it’s only a sentence and I can’t think how to develop it, LOL…
My toe doesn’t really hurt, I just have to keep it covered and try not to hit it on things. I’ve worn my sneakers once and did a little cardio, but it was hurting by the end of it. I still do a lot of leg lifts & situps & that sort of thing.
Love the line about maikng your home roadworthy, and happy to hear you can be doing that.
Oh yeah, I get to hate the inside of my head. I’ve been reading. Past couple days I read some oldish crime fiction. You know the insides of Raymond Chandler’s and James Cain’s heads are much more interesting than the inside of my head.
There is a piano at Edison. It is in the theater – but you have to see if the door to the theater is open, and if it is (it was when I checked last week) then go up to the stage – the piano is backstage on the left when you are facing the stage.
There’s nothing balanced about me, Natasha. My mind is always willy-nilly; thoughts rush away as fast as the arrive. But, when I’m looking for some sense of normal, I’ll take a drive and listen to a favorite playlist on my IPod.