Comments on: writing time http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/writing-time fiction matters Tue, 22 May 2012 13:51:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Celeste http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/writing-time/comment-page-1#comment-2835 Celeste Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:42:16 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=4607#comment-2835 This reminds me of something Nancy Reisman told me a long time ago: that writers have to give themselves space to daydream. I understood that to mean writers need spend a lot of time doing things that do not look like writing, and that a lot of the "writing" happens when we're not even sitting at the computer (or the typewriter, or the blank notebook page). Because a lot of writing is actually *thinking*, pulling ideas together, turning them over and over in our minds, letting them collide and seeing what happens. And it would be weird if we ONLY thought about our work when we were at the keyboard, wouldn't it? Now I'm off to make some toast. This reminds me of something Nancy Reisman told me a long time ago: that writers have to give themselves space to daydream. I understood that to mean writers need spend a lot of time doing things that do not look like writing, and that a lot of the “writing” happens when we’re not even sitting at the computer (or the typewriter, or the blank notebook page).

Because a lot of writing is actually *thinking*, pulling ideas together, turning them over and over in our minds, letting them collide and seeing what happens. And it would be weird if we ONLY thought about our work when we were at the keyboard, wouldn’t it?

Now I’m off to make some toast.

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