Working Till Your Brain Hurts
Me and Me, Too
Left Brain Speaks Right Brain Speaks
Clearly, most projects benefit from a logical approach.  a novel, a poem, and work should be planned, plotted and executed according to that plan.  Still, the logical side can be limiting and annoying.   I like a plan.  I really do but how many work out the way we'd like anyway?   As writers, planning is a double edged sword.  We know what we want to say but it never seems to fit the plan. 

So what should we do?   We must succumb to the temptation to stop making sense all the time.  We need to use the surprise and the joy we feel when we discover something.  And there is the problem with "the plan."

Plans never allow for surprise if they are followed too closely.   So what do we do?  Have a plan at a reasonable level and allow ourselves to use the discovery so valuable to writing.

And if that does work, well there is always yard work or cleaning the bathroom.  That solves many writer problems with actually writing something.   

I get so much joy out of placing wordstogether in creative-surpringly ways/means flows that it makes no sense except to me. I need some order to make the sunfishrainbowtrout stream meaningful schools of thought.  If writer's simply uses me then I control the stories and poems--good for me--the stories god--but I can't connect to others.  I need some planning and some order.

So I create and then allow my friend left brain to study and arrange my work.  Then I work more and i talk to the Left brain a bit.  It is a balance of creativity's teetertotter.Like Frog and Toad--the good Loebel Friends.

When it works, we are both exhausted and sometimes achy--a tryst--but we are both better for it.

When it's all done, we have successful writing.  Then  we do lunch--at two-- at the local diner--MiMi's