{"id":9993,"date":"2013-01-23T22:09:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T03:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9993"},"modified":"2013-01-23T22:09:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T03:09:05","slug":"oh-and-its-also-very-cold-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9993","title":{"rendered":"Oh, and it’s also very cold outside"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I woke up 40 minutes early this morning to write 3 pages, in what took about 10 or 15 minutes. Then I went to the train station 10 minutes early for the 7:20 train. One minute after I arrived, the 7:01 pulled into the station, 11 minutes late. I figured I’d get on that rather than wait for who knows how long. I arrived in Manhattan 15 minutes early, at the tail end of the lamest math non-problem ever.<\/p>\n

I didn’t love getting up early this morning, but I did it, and I scribbled my three longhand pages. Because it really does seems to be helping. I wrote another page of my story this evening. For me, for this story, a page is damn good. I don’t want to suggest that it’s a page of all gold, or that the words weren’t still all hard-earned. Writing three, free-flowing, stream-of-consciousness pages every morning isn’t remaking me as a writer. But it does seem to be helping me past what’s always been my biggest obstacle: editing as I go. I know I can<\/i> get three pages out, and knowing that has been helping me not get so hung up on each and every word.<\/p>\n

I mean, nobody has to see a first draft.<\/p>\n

Well, depending on when I finish this story and what I do with it, I might like to submit it to the Online Writing Workshop<\/a>. I haven’t completely got a handle on what’s going on, but it’s certainly some kind of horror.<\/p>\n

Well, nobody’s going to see that notebook of morning pages. I think I can guarantee that.<\/p>\n

This evening, I had a ticket to see Selected Shorts<\/a>, a night of Junot Diaz and Karen Russell’s stories, but I didn’t really want to go, as much as I’ve enjoyed both of their work, and Selected Shorts as a whole. I thought, rather than not get home until 11 or 12 o’clock, I’d come home and write. And I’m glad I did. I’m sorry to be out the $28, but…oh look, this is turning into a math problem again. <\/p>\n

Time, I think, for me to turn in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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