I am listening to an old trance album, trying to get into the groove of feeling like I’m staying up late at night to write on LiveJournal, even though it is almost lunchtime on a lazy, rainy Sunday. (Now that I’m posting this, it’s evening. We’re having leftover fried chicken for dinner.) I was loafing all day. Loafing doesn’t inspire me to use the writing muscle. I write much faster typing (duh) than writing by hand. Writing by hand keeps me brief and terse. A blog inspires me to get to babbling. But if I’m not feeling inspired, what is there to babble?
I will exercise/move as much as I can today, even if it’s bringing laundry up and down the stairs and helping position things where they should go. But before I do that, I want to think about how a section of my memoir will be laid out/written. What is the order of content? Do I break it out by internet thing or by era? Once I figure that out, I’ll be able to focus on what I’m writing, the same way I barrel into a blog when I’m on the clock at work and expected to produce. Finding the stride is the hardest part for me.
One of the easiest ways to get into the groove/mood is to set up a scene like I would have had back then. World of Warcraft, lol. AIM in the background. Music playing from that era that I would have virtue signaled in my LiveJournal. This is the idea behind the bit: these websites and projects take me back to that time so that I can recreate them in descriptions for you.
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