Motivational *mumble* Friday Post

[dawn_felagund]

I am two days late this week! This is ridiculous. My theory that my brain works worst on Wednesdays (Wednesdays have been my least favorite day of the week since I was a little kid) is being proven by my attempts to make motivational posts on Wednesdays! My apologies, everyone.

This week's quote is in honor of muses ... or whatever that crazy, fickle force is that makes us write like unstoppable superheroes one day and then fritter away the entire uninspired day on Tumblr the next. I also liked it because this is, after all, the Season of Writing Dangerously, i.e. taking creative chances that might sometimes feel a little like madness.

"The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist ... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings."
~Plato

As always, feel free to brag, rant, plead for help, whine, celebrate, cheer each other on, and anything else related to your SoWD projects!

If you have a quote, image, video, or other idea that you think would inspire your fellow participants in one of these motivational posts, please do let me know. Also, we're coming up on the halfway point of SoWD in about two weeks, and we have something special planned for that occasion. If you like making banners and such and would like to help us out, please let me know. (If you've volunteered generally to help with SoWD, no need to volunteer again; you're on the list of people I will contact.)

Here's to a week of madly productive muses! :)

Comments

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much where I'm at with my SinS assignment, too. >_> I've managed a concept and a mood and some bits of dialogue, but I have zero idea how it fits together and what the actual point is. Er.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

You are light years ahead of me, lol

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

... How the heck did the deadline get so close? Yargh.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I just applied for my customary extension. I didn't even stop and think about it. Where did the weeks go? (in other words, how did I manage to fritter away this much time on doing not much of anything??)

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

This one does seem to have crept up awfully fast. (Every time, I swear I'll get it done by deadline... and every time, I end up scribbling after deadline - but before archive open - with please don't kill me messages to the mods.)

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Red beta reads for me, so I guess she would LOVE me to get done early for a change, lol. Two people I know are finished - I find that rather intimidating as I am procrastinating to avoid trying to write the first sentence.

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe maybe. :D

... Finished? Gah. That makes me feel a bit like a chronic underachiever, heh. Ah well. They'll all get finished in the end. Er, somehow.