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Procrastination really is the basis of all writing, isn't it?
As you may have twigged on to by now, I listen to a lot of music. A lot of pop and rap stuff I listen to just to have a rhythm going (I don't have to think about what's actually being sung, hence, my brain can run off and do its thing, cavorting with ideas) and the more intense rock and punk shite I listen to actively because it strips me down raw and pulls me along, feeling dangerous, shouting, thrashing, screaming (if you don't get Iggy, I don't know if I wanna get you).
I cannot for the life of me write when there's music on. Music is thinking-stuff or feeling-stuff but it certainly isn't writing-stuff. So in order to start writing, I have to make that switch: turn off the music, put my headphones down, plug them into the recharger, and then open up the document in question.
That's my personal 'turning point' of procrastination. It's all just words from there on in - when I get started, I get started, and I won't stop until I've got a couple dozen pages of witty banter or aloof rambling or some bizarre kind of hybrid done.
The side-effect of this is that I am exceptionally horrible at structuring things. I try to do so in advance - hell, you have no idea of the kind of long write-ups I've done for story structure - but I inevitably end up careening down another path, usually confusing the hell out of my audience on the way there.
On the other hand, my sentences are pretty. It's a trade-off.
Now I think about it, this post seems to be an excellent example of this.
(And on the other hand, I could probably write a good few pages of chase scene for a script while listening to Apollo 440's Stop the Rock. Remember, kids, Len's more discardable absolute statements are rarely anything but relative)
