But Then What Do We Do With It?
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntbijouOkay, so you're sitting there, and you get one of those brainstorms, and start typing furiously, you're writing, you're in the groove, in the moment, you can just see the scene unfolding as you write it, the keyboard is practically smoking because you're typing so fast, trying to capture it all before it fades. And it's good. It's really good. I mean, walk around the room, jumping up and down, pumping your fist and going, "YEAH!!" good. Yeah, like that.
And when you're done, you read it over, and you're like, "Holy Mackinoly, I wrote this? Because, seriously, this is good, really, really good!"
Because it is. It's fantastic. It does everything it's supposed to do, it tugs at the emotional heartstrings in just the right way, even makes you cry when you read it over a second time, and you realize this snippit is probably the Best Thing You've Ever Written. Ever.
And then you realize... you can't use it, because it has no relation whatsoever to anything else you're working on.
*sigh*
And when you're done, you read it over, and you're like, "Holy Mackinoly, I wrote this? Because, seriously, this is good, really, really good!"
Because it is. It's fantastic. It does everything it's supposed to do, it tugs at the emotional heartstrings in just the right way, even makes you cry when you read it over a second time, and you realize this snippit is probably the Best Thing You've Ever Written. Ever.
And then you realize... you can't use it, because it has no relation whatsoever to anything else you're working on.
*sigh*
