I know I’m always inside one or the other of my stories or my novel. I’m watching and listening to my characters talk to each other, imagining their repartee, their tears, their devastation, their joys, their peccadilloes, their ambitions. I’m wondering ‘What if’ as I watch people, or “What’s their story?”
Writing never leaves me alone.
If you’re a writer, does this happen to you? Do you carry a world inside your head even when you’re away on a vacation?
Oh ok…so I'm not the only crazy one!lol
I once took a week off from blogging and it felt like forever. And, yes, when I'm not writing, I'm always thinking about writing or daydreaming up a story. I feel like I have "writers mind" because I can never stop thinking, even when I'm in bed trying to get some sleep! Lol
Yes, this sounds just like me. I can get lost in a daydream about my characters or a new plot on the short walk to work.
I'm perpetually lost in daydreams, and I end up offending the 'real' people in my life.
Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows my characters.. and that they're not real. 😀 When I am fully engrossed in a project, everything around me reminds me of my characters and how they would act/react in whatever situation I am in.
Yes, that's me. Sometimes I'm not sure one of my thoughts belongs to me or my character, and I rush to jot it down.
The creation, the formulation of a story is always around me and within me. I write from observing things that I no longer take for granted. The mind, the heart, the soul, stays illuminated with the passion that is the written word.
Happy, fulfilling writing to you, dear friend.
Gary
Thanks, Gary, I need those good wishes right now more than you can know.
I even dream about writing! 🙂
DL, again, me too 🙂
Yes. That's why I carry my journal with me everywhere. You never know when you'll need to jot down an idea.
Me too, I have more journals than I can count.
What would writers be, without the ever-turning wheels in our heads?
Yup, all the time. Even when I tell myself not to think about writing, I do. The wheels in my head are always turning, crafting that next story.
Yes! When I'm not writing, I'm thinking about my story-how to improve it, where to go next, how to fix a problem, etc. It never ends!
Yep. A writer's life never ends.
Yes, but I seem to be able to set it aside when I'm on vacation.
As you can see from the comment above, I can't !
Definitely. If I'm not thinking about something I'm working on, I'm looking at people as though they're characters in a story (which I suppose they are).
mood
I suppose they are, too. Just finished a story based on a setting I visited during a short break.
I take my writing everywhere. My husband was off doing his thing Saturday. I sat under a tree with a notebook and pen, doing my thing. 😀
Mary, I always find I work better outside my home. Right now, am editing a story curled up in the library!
Yes, and even though I am finished with it, I still see the Cassan universe.
Thanks for letting us see it with you 🙂
it's always there. Always…
And I love it, so that parts good at least 🙂
Yes, Kelley, we're lucky to be able to do what we like!
I am not a writer but a blogger and my mind is always thinking and looking at things from blogging perspective. Every incident / occasion/ moment is checked if it could be blog worthy! 😛
I do that too. Especially when I'm reading articles on the internet.
Even my daughter notices my daydreaming moments when I'm sitting still in deep thought or observing the world around me in quiet appreciation for the storymaking going on gone. She'll ask me, "Mommy, are you thinking again?" to which I answer, "Yes, sweetie. Mommy's always thinking."
Your daughter is lucky– she's living the writer life already!
I wonder if I am delusional. It is, after all, all in my head.
~Just Jill
All writers have to be delusional to some degree.
So true. I keep thinking about the next set of characters I should be writing about, especially when I'm in editing mode on an old novel.
Characters fascinate me more than real people sometimes!
Writing is essentially me. I cannot imagine my life with it.
I guess that's for all us writers. 🙂
Just when you get yourself thinking of something else, a perfect story comes along 🙂
Yes, distraction works well for the creative mind.
Absolutely! I would do nothing but write all the time if I could get away with it. 🙂
Melissa, that would be wonderful. I have more time to write than most, but sadly most of my writing remains in my head.
I am always thinking about it. I go to sleep at night considering a scene and wake up planning my day so I can finally sit down and write.
Sleeping over it is sometimes the best way to unpuzzle a plot knot!
Most definitely. I love to watch peeps from my rear view mirror while sitting at a traffic light. I never know what I'm going to see. From people fighting, talking with their hands while on their cell phones to the pimple and nose pickers. Everyone has a definite story.
Hugs and chocolate,
Shelly
I'm people watching, too, especially on the roads where all those evanescent dramas of human existence tend to take place.