Thursday Aug 01, 2002

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been writing like a fiend, and sometimes quiet. i have this old typwriter that needs some major pounding on if it's going to put ink on the page, which is good since my mind is taken by the sound as i write. this thing is loud!!! slam slam slam. later, i dont even remember what i wrote and it seems more honest. its kind of like when your talking on the telephone and start doodling. something gets created without much thought but still, as you talk, the other half of you is devoted to the image and it comes out good. end thought - life is so much better without deadlines (sometimes).
tib0r:
i love writing fiendishly late at night and then you wake up the next morning and read what you wrote and it's like, did i write that?
jorganic:
sometimes its good to create without intention and just let stuff pour out. its good to let go of intention and preconception and open the floodgates. you may only get a few sentences, or, in my case, a few bars, of usable material out of the whole end product, but you can't beat that process from breaking you out of your own cliches.

Then again. there is something to be said for the focus that having a deadline creates.

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