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truepennynew novella: 1,432 words
Finished! Total: 10,100 words
After dinner and a walk, it cooled down enough to work. Thank goodness. Yes, I should have been working on my dissertation instead, but I'm not going to feel guilty about it (she says defiantly). The story needed finishing.
And, dammit, I just had an idea for another one.
This always used to happen. My great bursts of creativity would come at the end of the semester, when I needed to be working on term papers. It was very reliable. And apparently that piece of mental legerdemain is still my best trick.
Finished! Total: 10,100 words
After dinner and a walk, it cooled down enough to work. Thank goodness. Yes, I should have been working on my dissertation instead, but I'm not going to feel guilty about it (she says defiantly). The story needed finishing.
And, dammit, I just had an idea for another one.
This always used to happen. My great bursts of creativity would come at the end of the semester, when I needed to be working on term papers. It was very reliable. And apparently that piece of mental legerdemain is still my best trick.
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Date: 2003-07-04 09:11 pm (UTC)Always.
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Date: 2003-07-07 07:17 am (UTC)I can relate to having the new things come when one is already over one's head in other things. I think I do have a stress-into-creativity translator stored somewhere in the back of my brain, though it seems to feed better off personal/relationship stress than work-related stress, and it's entirely unpredictable in its actions.