Experiment #1.1

Okay, try out different scenarios to discover when and where you find it easiest to write.

This is Experiment 1.1. My head tells me that afternoons at my own computer are best for me, so I am trying it out to see if I am right. As such, this is going to be 'stream of consciousness' stuff., so don't expect anything earth-shattering.

Earth-shattering is a good place to look at, I guess. You see, I read tons of fan-fiction and currently my obsession is with the character of Loki, from Avengers Assemble. There are some really good (and frighteningly young) authors working in this genre. Loki tends towards 'earth-shattering' projects, but in the hands of fan-fiction writers he is also all about how our upbringing shapes us. The maturity with which some FF authors write is astounding, given their youth.


'Write what you know' is an oft expounded piece of advice given writers. How can that happen when what you want to write is basically stuff that is beyond anyone's experiences? Can only scientists write science-fiction? Do you have to be a nurse or a surgeon to write ER? No. You have to do your research, is my conclusion and experience.


This is me babbling, so how can it be of use to me in getting some proper writing down? I don't know yet. Maybe it can't? Maybe it can? What I read may indicate what I want to write? I like reading 'hurt/comfort', stuff about abuse survivors, stuff where people win against all odds. I'm not as addicted to happy endings as my co-author Jessie Blackwood, but I do prefer 'positive overall' and 'leaving a movie on a high' feelings. I guess I am a product of my teen years there, having found that effect with Star Wars and wanting it from every movie. Correction. 'film', not 'movie'. I speak and write in English, not American English!

Daniel Craig's Bond films give me that high-octane kick too. I suppose I like 'white hats' and 'black hats' and 'Love conquers all'. I did watch an awful lot of John Wayne and other cowboy films when I was younger. My Dad had an obsession with them, and with Sci-Fi, which he passed on to me. Sadly they don't seem to make 'proper' cowboy films now though. That worries me, because I wonder whether what I want to write is so far out of the popularity zone that I am pre-doomed.

See, I do appear to be quite productive at this time of day and in this setting.


I just had my alarm go off to tell me to take my medications. My blood sugar is 14.4 at the moment. I wonder whether blood sugar levels impact on when I write best? I suspect it's a contributing factor at least, since the blood sugar dictated my energy levels. It could be more significant than that though?

There are so many things that might be significant in optimising one's writing regime. I suppose too, 'practice makes perfect' is part of the effect. A person's head probably has a lot of junk it needs to blurt out before there is room for the good stuff? One of the writers from the latest course audio indicated as much. So me spewing up words like this has a purpose, perhaps?

Should I, though, inflict it on the rest of the world? That's a question often attached to painting, too. Is anyone listening anyway? Not at the moment, it seems. But then ego suggests every word is golden, every insight liable to change someone'a life at some future point when I am magnificently famous and have earned endless plaudits for my writing (and paintings).

Yeah, really...