How Do I Write?
I see a word or a phrase. It sparks a thought. I sit down. My fingers type something. I read it.Sometimes I correct mistakes or clumsy sections. I stop!
Like I wrote on here yesterday something called Lost In Space Bar (link below).
I wrote it because I had entered a challenge, or so I thought, but when I published it didn’t connect to the challenge.I didn’t know how to delete so I thoughty if I changed the title and the text I could publish as a stand alone piece and re-enter the challenge. But I had to be quick, as people had already started to ‘like’ it. I was at my keyboard and I just thought “What is there here that I could write about”. There before me was a massive ‘space bar’. Space Bar... double meaning... off we go!
So I did that and re-posted my piece in the challenge.. FFs it didn’t link to the challenge again! So I had to go through the same process. I got a text.
My mind clicked. My fingers wrote.
Out came my Text Subtext piece- I wrote two pieces in about four minutes.
But it wasn’t me.
It was my fingers.
Then today I had a meeting and the other person started to choke a little.
“You ate a biscuit bfore?” I ventured. They confirmed this.
I gave them advice... never eat a biscuit even an hour before you have a meeting or give a presentation. A crumb will always hide in your teeth and jump out to choke you as you get to a key part of your speaking!
It’s true.
While they got a glass of water, I made a note in my phone and wrote “Viscious Biscuit”. That will be on here very soon, I suspect.. a short poem.
That’s how I work.
I guess that’s why I struggle with novels and plays.
I get an idea, but it doesn’t always flesh out to more than a few stanzas.
So that’s it.
Now you know!