It wasn't 50,000 words but it was a lot of writing.

[angledge]

I am on the bus heading home from work. I am on the bus because my eye has not yet healed enough for me to feel safe driving. I am at work late on a Friday because I was assigned yet another Phase I ESA (oh, how I tire of doing them!) & I procrastinated on it all week. Then around mid-afternoon today, I finally hit a writing groove. So I decided to ride that wave, & I stayed at work until I finished the draft. I think it's pretty good.

I wish I could figure out a way to enter that writing state at will. It is easy for me to detect: suddenly, I can stay on task, I remember details of the report that have to be consistent, I get quick at summarizing large amounts of data. I am not pestered by constant impulses to check email or IM. But I don't know what causes me to enter this state.

Any thoughts? Perhaps particularly from the NaNoWriMo folks?

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[etcet.livejournal.com]

while you may not be able to kung-fu grip your way into writing headspace, you can give yourself some suggestive triggers - a playlist, a beverage, a particular writing spot, a scented candle or other aroma, etc.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Sometimes if I've spent some time preparing for a writing thing, it just flows out and then keeps on going and going. But for the most part, it's pretty random on my end. I wish I could trigger it more frequently. Also, I wish I could trigger quality control so that my output would be worth something, but that's another topic altogether. ;-)

[love2loveher.livejournal.com]

Ok, what I've heard from the NaNo folks (a feat I'll never accomplish) is that the key is to write down something, and accept that it sucks.
So in my life, I Can. Not. Handle. That.
So in my work life, I take the document I'm writing, and I stare at it, think about it a little, then I open a second document - a blank word file, and I start writing whatever there.
For some reason, the fact that I'm not tainting the actual document - the actual product that others will see, allows me to just go at things and get words to paper.
Many words that may never be seen, but still...

[effrontery.livejournal.com]

Yep, this. If I wait for the inspiration to come...well, she's a fickle muse. So I write, and eventually something good comes out...