Frame of mind to write

Good morning!

Yes, sometimes I'm not in the right frame of mind to write. It happens to everybody, and if there are any writers out there who say it has never happened to them, then I say, "Wait a while; it'll happen."

As I've said before, during blank periods and such, I just sit down and write almost anything until I've passed the line between writing and not writing, and then edit when I am in the proper frame of mind. Sometimes heavily. Entire passages, paragraphs or chapters may be deleted, but what I can use then or at a later date gets saved.

Perhaps it is outside influences that prevent a person from writing; in that case, work your way through the barrens and try again. If it is worry that interferes with you, address the problem you are dealing with until you can once again sit down and write. I see the problem as a matter or ordering priorities. I do what I can about whatever is bothering me and then sit down to decompress by writing.

At such times, I may seem distracted and bland of personality, but that's because I'm living a life inside my head. It's not my life, but that of a character. The show goes on within my mind and I am sitting back and watching it as I go about my life. When I have the time to sit and write, then the story has worked itself out in my head. For those who regiment their writing day by working on an outline and 'coloring between the lines', I can simply shrug and say that this is what works for me.

Thank you,
Derek A. Murphy
Author of Eggs of Empire, It Happens Every Day, Questionable Interests and others.
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