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walexander
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I know I've been writing to much when...

Feel free to continue this line with what ever comes to mind.

I know I been writing to much when in a dream I'm an extra on a film set and decide I should write a behind the scene article about the film, but can't get my pen to work because its a miniature slug like alien. Darn those are hard to write with.

W.


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Pyre Dynasty
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I know I've been writing to much . . . when I begin my letter with, "Dear Much."

Or when I forget the difference between to and too.


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I know I have been writing too much when...my fingers, hands and arms ache.
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When my inner voice starts narrating my daily life. (On the plus side, it has an interesting way of describing strangers. I'm trying to learn how to describe characters as smoothly.)
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...when I hear a story on NPR about radioactive wild boars and start thinking about story ideas with said contaminated swine.

or

...when my wife threatens to dismember my fingers with a cigar cutter.

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What is this "too much writing" you speak of?
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...when I reach my self-defined five-hundred-words-a-day limit.
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walexander
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... when I start to pour the coffee on top of the pancakes.

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genevive42
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aspirit, are you saying that that's not normal? It happens to me when my writing is flowing best.

I only believe I am writing too much when I lean back from the computer screen and realize that I am starving or that I am in desperate need of sleep. Damn those corporeal needs.


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. . . when the letter O starts making fun of me.
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..when I peer from the square portal at the mystical being who weaves my world. He sits hunched over, his fingers peck-peck-pecking at strange runes, but his eyes watch me intently.

Sometimes I think he makes evil things happen to me...


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...the books of reference on my desk have reach a height so great that should they fall they will probably kill me.
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walexander
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When I start playing actual amateur detective over every silly thing a friend talks about.

Friend - "but I was positive I set the glass there, but when I looked, it wasn't there it was over there!"

Me - "Really... I see, and no one else could have touched it? No one at all?"

Friend - "No! No one at all!"

Me - "Huum...really."

W.


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... I can tell what's going to happen next in the movie or tv episode that I've never seen before.
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genevive, that kind of narration doesn't mean that my stories are developing well. It just means that my mind is stuck in writing mode. It's troublesome when several attorneys need me to focus on the non-fictional work they're handing me or when I'm driving somewhere new for an appointment.

Sometimes I can't tell if real life is interfering with my writing life or if it's the other way around.


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My mind was narrating my ride home tonight (on the motorcycle), while I was splitting lanes down Interstate 10. One day I'm going to write a motorcycle ride narration as a story.
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