The Terrible Secret
Jun. 25th, 2009 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This is altogether too true about what it’s like to be a writer. Except for the part where, in casual conversation, you will also mention your characters’ exploits the way your mom periodically tells you about the goings-on of relatives you only barely remember, and people will stare at you all funny.
I probably shouldn’t even be telling you this.
Blame for outing our secret lies partly on Wil Wheaton, who linked to this.
I probably shouldn’t even be telling you this.
Blame for outing our secret lies partly on Wil Wheaton, who linked to this.
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Date: 2009-06-25 10:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-25 10:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-25 10:36 pm (UTC)I've taken to saying, when my wife asks me how my day went, "I wrote all the way to Bloedel Donovan Park today, taking the Old Railroad trail. Man, that must have burned a lot of calories!"
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Date: 2009-06-26 09:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-26 01:45 pm (UTC)And then there're are the days were I spend an inordinate amount of time writing in the bathroom.
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Date: 2009-06-25 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-26 12:11 am (UTC)I feel like such a burden has been lifted. ;_;
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Date: 2009-06-26 03:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-05 09:58 pm (UTC)Being able to get time to myself is really a central tension in my life right now, and has been for years - it's always been difficult for me to explain why, because being what it's like I don't feel comfortable talking about it. Usually it just makes people think I must have some reason for disliking them, which is what I'm trying to avoid having to deal with by sacrificing perfectly good "me" time to them in the first place. I can't even say it's writing time because then where's all that writing I'm supposed to be doing? Show me the writing!
Thank you for having posted this. It was bittersweet but it felt cathartic to read.