MSLEXIA | FINAL BLOG | YOU KNOW MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU DO

Jun12You Know More Than You Think You Do0 CommentsPosted by Susie Wild in deadlines,inspiration,writing process

I have this Anthony Burrill poster on my mood board of a wall behind my desk and it still makes me smile. I definitely think that as a writer a lot of the work we do is quietly going on behind the scenes in our unconscious. That I know more about the writing project that I have been thinking around for ages than I think I do when I sit and stare at the blank page. This is there to remind me of that fact and to prevent another procrastination bad habit of mine – over researching. To bolster me onwards.My desk says rather a lot about my state of mind and productivity. It is currently untidy, which is a good sign. I have been too immersed in writing to sort through my To Do file, or indeed file things. Instead they sit in a haphazard pile of things-that-I-am-not-doing-right-now, held in place by a paperweight and a bumper tub of iron tablets. My garrett is, itself, not too messy. I can’t work in complete disorder. Clothes have been washed and there are no piles of coffee cups and plates growing their own mould universes. It is more organised chaos. Several open notebooks, a strew of pens, loose sheets of lists,doodles and scribbles and a number of books read and half read...
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