When Your Brain Is a Broken Sieve

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I should be writing. Selah.

And I have very little to do other than sit down to right. Other than taking care of my Ninja Writer duties, I have nothing to do but sit down and write.

So I’m getting a lot of writing done, right?

No.

I sit down. I bring myself to the place where I’m supposed to write. I open Scrivener, and I open the Microsoft Word document where I’m making a character reference list. Whenever I add a new character to the story, even in a lateral reference, I put their name in this alphabetical list. I don’t know if this is just a curiosity thing or a function thing that I think will help me in the long run somewhere. But I’m doing it.

I open iTunes and put on some music. Then I shuffle through the songs a few times. Once I find the right song, I start writing. I get a sentence or two down, and then I need to change the song. So I scroll through a few more songs, until I find another song. Then I start writing.

I do this a few times. Then I decide that I need to put on Pandora, so I won’t change the music. So I close iTunes, and turn on Pandora. Pandora’s just as bad, because I still technically have the skips, even if I’m not supposed to use them. The songs, even if I love the station, just don’t click with my brain.