I don't know
Dec. 1st, 2004 02:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2I don't know why I don't feel like doing anything at all when I come home from work. I don't feel like playing City of Heroes. I might be reaching the point of boredom with that game, but so far I don't feel any temptation to pick up another game. You'd think that this means I could start writing more, but although I have ideas in my head during the day, I don't feel like writing when I come home. I know that I never feel like writing unless I've already started writing -- the best cure for not being in the mood to write is to write anyway. But so far I've failed to force myself to write.
In the last few days I've read a bit. A manga called W Juliet. Chapters out of a book of unsolved mysteries, mostly murder mysteries. More mystery stuff online. Tonight I watched one of my Inu-Yasha dvds. I'm very very VERY far behind in watching these, I have probably a dozen to watch. But after the first one I didn't feel like watching the next.
It's kind of perplexing to have time to yourself and to have no idea what you really want to do with it. I guess I'll just go to bed early...
As I tried drifing off to sleep, for some reason writing exercises started going through my head. You know, taking a phrase like "As black as..." and trying to come up with one description which you like, which works and isn't completely cliched.
So for example:
As black as night.
As black as soot.
As black as coal.
...which are all obvious cliches.
As black as india ink.
As black as Mickey Mouse's butt.
...I like this one but after thinking about it, it conjurs up more racially-motivated phrases, which wasn't my intention, I was just thinking of things drawn in inda ink that have a universal recognition. So maybe "As black as Mickey Mouse's ears." But I'm not sure I like that as much, it doesn't have the same sort of impact for me. Or you could say "As black as Mickey Mouse's fist." And that has a little more impact because you don't generally think of him making a fist. Of course, his fist would only be black beneath his white gloves, so that's probably a bad idea all around.
But the general idea is to get your mind thinking along these lines. I'm usually bad at descriptive phrases when I write, so exercises like this can help.
As twisted as the mind of an Enron accountant.
As hollow as a campaign promise.
As hollow as a statement from George W. Bush. (More specifically).
As subtle as...
As surprising as...
As quiet as...
Well, I had a lot of different things going through my mind but now that I'm awake again I can't remember most of them.
As elusive as thoughts on the edge of sleep.
In the last few days I've read a bit. A manga called W Juliet. Chapters out of a book of unsolved mysteries, mostly murder mysteries. More mystery stuff online. Tonight I watched one of my Inu-Yasha dvds. I'm very very VERY far behind in watching these, I have probably a dozen to watch. But after the first one I didn't feel like watching the next.
It's kind of perplexing to have time to yourself and to have no idea what you really want to do with it. I guess I'll just go to bed early...
As I tried drifing off to sleep, for some reason writing exercises started going through my head. You know, taking a phrase like "As black as..." and trying to come up with one description which you like, which works and isn't completely cliched.
So for example:
As black as night.
As black as soot.
As black as coal.
...which are all obvious cliches.
As black as india ink.
As black as Mickey Mouse's butt.
...I like this one but after thinking about it, it conjurs up more racially-motivated phrases, which wasn't my intention, I was just thinking of things drawn in inda ink that have a universal recognition. So maybe "As black as Mickey Mouse's ears." But I'm not sure I like that as much, it doesn't have the same sort of impact for me. Or you could say "As black as Mickey Mouse's fist." And that has a little more impact because you don't generally think of him making a fist. Of course, his fist would only be black beneath his white gloves, so that's probably a bad idea all around.
But the general idea is to get your mind thinking along these lines. I'm usually bad at descriptive phrases when I write, so exercises like this can help.
As twisted as the mind of an Enron accountant.
As hollow as a campaign promise.
As hollow as a statement from George W. Bush. (More specifically).
As subtle as...
As surprising as...
As quiet as...
Well, I had a lot of different things going through my mind but now that I'm awake again I can't remember most of them.
As elusive as thoughts on the edge of sleep.
