Writing jail
My friend and I are going on holiday next week and we are going to write. The house we are staying in has a cellar, possibly more of a dungeon. My friend has dubbed it writing jail and anticipates banishment to it.
I've never been one for punishing myself into writing, or any creativity. I am looking forward to walking on the moors and visiting bookshops and filling up my creative batteries. Play games, read a lot. Going to pull out all my creative tricks. Whiteboard, A1 paper, index cards, story dice. Get messy and enthusiastic. So that I want to write, can't help but write.
How these two approaches will square... Well, I guess we'll find out!
I'm firmly of the "you do you" approach. Probably we should try all the different approaches and figure out which one, or ones, or combinations, work for us.
If one was, say, to somehow take a month off life and pay thousands of dollars to have nothing to do all day but write a five hundred word blog post, for instance... I can see how that would indeed take all day.
In my experience, with my brain, tasks often expand to fit the time allotted to them. I have learned not to do this. As they say, if you want something doing ask a busy person. One can write 1667 words a day, also for instance. One can write over 1667 words in an hour, if an hour is all one has.
Anyway. This came about because my friend said "we should go away and write next year" and it felt like one of those nice ideas that get floated but you don't hold your breath about. Except, a week later... we seized the day and got it booked. I'm pretty impressed with us. It's very 'trying new things and doing more stuff.'