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[firecat]

This writing session was fun and easy, even though I was exhausted. I wish I had a better grasp on what makes a writing session fun/easy and what makes it hard. I suspect some of it has to do with whether I'm writing something that really interests me. (And that makes me wonder, "Well, shouldn't the whole thing really interest me? Why write it otherwise?") I think there are other factors too, though.

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[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Wearing my editor hat: the whole thing almost can't interest you (at least at a consistent level) because there are so many things a novel has to do to work at all, and it's hard to see how any writer could be equally interested in, or equally good at, all of those things.

Other factors might include aspects of mood other than exhaustion/awakeness, what's going on in the house around you, what else you might be doing if you weren't writing (shall I go on?).

[firecat]

what else you might be doing if you weren't writing

Now that's an interesting one. Last night, what else I might have been doing was working on beading a necklace that I'm really happy with.