...if this is what your writing sessions look like sometimes. This is from John Crowley's Little, Big; it describes the exploits of Auberon, a writer, who shuts himself into an "Imaginary Study" within his tenement apartment to write.
What he intended to do...was mostly to daydream, though he wouldn’t have put it that way; to court, on long wool-gathering rambles, Psyche his soul; put two and two together, and perhaps write down the sum, for he would have sharpened pencils in the pencil-well of the desk and a clean pad before him. (p. 315 of the Harper Perennial edition)
I believe I am well overdue for comments on your wonderful posts, Michelle.
ReplyDeleteI love the thoughts here - about writing as an experiment, slipping away to create and not knowing what you're going to come up with... and that being okay! I so often need to give myself a "chill pill" and just let something happen!