I found that for myself and a few others, writing when one is very tired or "half asleep" can yield amazing outcomes. I remember a couple of times i would wake up and go "woah!, did i seriously write that!?"
...and that outcome rendered Samuel Adams having his nipple pinched by another man while thw two were in the same bed, Yep, it yielded such amazing results I laugh everytime I read "Bedridden with Samuel Adams."
I tend not to be able to write late at night. I find more success if I simply shut off my internal, "OMG what is that crap you are writing?" Editor. This often gets shut off late at night, haha. If I can actually write late at night, it is interesting, but only a few pieces are worth saving. It tends to need excessive rewriting the next day.
NaNoWriMo is like that 24/7. Yay! I'm excited already.
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
I pulled an all-nighter to finish Firebrand, and I actually think it turned out ok.
Until the ending. The ending was a cop-out because I was exhausted and I just wanted to get the dang thing done. The end will have to be extensively rewritten.
“We’re still here,” he says, his voice cold, his hands shaking. “We know how to be invisible, how to play dead. But at the end of the day, we are still here.” ~Dax
Teacher: "What do we do with adjectives in Spanish?"
S: "We eat them!"
I get the inspiration when half-asleep (or asleep... I mean, dreams are wicked sources of inspiration) but I never have the energy to write the ideas down in all their magnificence, so they never turn out the way I imagined them if I write them down then and there. I usually either cop out and it falls flat or it turns out just dull and boring.
Well, that's not entirely true. My humor pieces only ever appear when I am tired. Or at least, the only ones that are ever funny.
Writing when I'm half asleep is the only way that I can write. It's late at night when I'm most focused, even though my eyes are shutting right now. It's midnight. I need sleep. But this is when I normally write. My day-time writing is suckitude.
Ick. I had a dream about the villain in my story last night. Well, actually it was a totally different person, but her the girl's personality in my dream was scary similar. I totally underestimated how scary my bad guy is until I had that dream...
“We’re still here,” he says, his voice cold, his hands shaking. “We know how to be invisible, how to play dead. But at the end of the day, we are still here.” ~Dax
Teacher: "What do we do with adjectives in Spanish?"
S: "We eat them!"
i had a very weird dream last night about vampire nuns chasing me along a deserted dirt road in the middle of a wheat field. I was driving a recliner...
needless to say, some of my weirdest ideas and inspirations come while I'm half asleep, or totally asleep.
Since i get no sleep at all, i do write half asleep all the time. I actually wrote around two 45 in the morning today and wrote an amazing piece. I hope that i can put it into one of my stories, otherwise, i will just make it a poem
