If...

[scheherazade_79]

... you didn't write in your leisure time, how would you occupy those empty hours?

The thought occurred to me today from my sick bed. I've got tonsillitis, but not in any cissy-type way. I'm drooling constantly, sound like a North Walian when I talk and am in constant pain. The doctor took one look in my mouth yesterday morning and said, "Oh my God!" - which made me feel even better.

To top it off, the penicillin is making me feel really nauseous, and I managed to pebble-dash the kitchen walls when a spoonful of yogurt went down the wrong way over lunch today.

So, apart from the odd occasion where I have enough strength to crawl to the forest down my road for some illicit herbal relief, I'm pretty much bed-bound.

It's not such a bad thing, though, because finally, after months of hell at work, I have the time to write, and visiting different worlds that way has staved off the cabin fever.

It made me wonder what the hell I'd do if I didn't write, because at the end of the day there are only so many dvds you can watch, video games you can play and books you can read before you lose concentration.

I have no idea what I'd do if I didn't write. Part of me likes the idea of buying a telescope and learning astronomy, but you're limited by time and weather on that one.

So what would you do if your Muse suddenly packed his / her bags?

Scheherazade

 

[FallingToFly]

really bad art.

that's what I do when the dragon slinks off elsewhere, as she and her motley crew seem to have doen this week.

the flash graphics are awesome though.

now I just have to learn how to upload them.

damn computer illiterate me.

 

[Recidiva]

I've made writing and words my job, so there hasn't been a day when I don't read or write all day long. If I don't do this professionally, I will do it on my own, inhaling and exhaling words like breath.

I haven't been without this for years, but before that, I have never been without words, books...

I don't think it's possible for me to exist in that vacuum.

 

[Aurora Black]

So what would you do if your Muse suddenly packed his / her bags?

If you mean forever, I'd probably continue with my singing career and teach English as a second language to Greek children. In other words, I'd be totally fucking miserable if I couldn't write.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

The doctor took one look in my mouth yesterday morning and said, "Oh my God!" - which made me feel even better.

Isn't it funny how the horror of medical professionals can completely justify our former whining about being sick?

Reminds me of that tombstone: "I told you I was sick!"

 

[TheEarl]

I think I'd live if I couldn't write. I enjoy the end product and the satisfaction it gives me and I do mostly enjoy the writing. But it's not something that I would feel bereft to be without, which probably explains why the more dedicated Litizens are better than me!

The Earl

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I think I'd live if I couldn't write. I enjoy the end product and the satisfaction it gives me and I do mostly enjoy the writing. But it's not something that I would feel bereft to be without, which probably explains why the more dedicated Litizens are better than me!

The Earl

the what if's are scary... I've often been panicked at the thought... what if I loss the use of my hands (typing) or went blind... funny, the first thing I would think of is, "I couldn't write!" :x telling?

 

[Aurora Black]

the what if's are scary... I've often been panicked at the thought... what if I loss the use of my hands (typing) or went blind... funny, the first thing I would think of is, "I couldn't write!" :x telling?

Or, God forbid, a serious head injury.

 

[oggbashan]

If I couldn't write, I'd annoy my local council/City Hall even more than I do now.

I would go around the town persuading other people to write to their councillors about things that bother them...

Og

 

[carsonshepherd]

the what if's are scary... I've often been panicked at the thought... what if I loss the use of my hands (typing) or went blind... funny, the first thing I would think of is, "I couldn't write!" :x telling?

Ditto. I have problems with my wrists and hands and I've given up doing a lot of the physical things I used to do in order to keep using a keyboard. I've always made things with my hands, but not anymore.

I don't know what I'd do if I physically couldn't write. Get voice-rec software I guess. If I couldn't write emotionally, if it just abandoned me, I really don't know what I would think about. I'm constan tly thinking about whatever story I'm writing or might write. I sometimes wonder what people who don;t write think about all day.

Scheh, sorry about the tonsilitis. I've had it to the point of "Oh God" and it's just miserable. Feel better soon.

 

[Alessia Brio]

So what would you do if your Muse suddenly packed his / her bags?

I'd probably waste time on an online forum bitching about my AWOL muse.




(Take care of yourself, Scheh! )

 

[Aurora Black]

Get well soon.

 

[Guest]

... you didn't write in your leisure time, how would you occupy those empty hours?

So what would you do if your Muse suddenly packed his / her bags?

Scheherazade

I'm with you on the tonselittis front -- I get a serious throat infection about every three years. My favorite was when the doctor looked at my throat and said "Well, if this absesses over the weekend, go to the ER."

I write so much - journal entries, posts here, essays, posts elsewhere -- but I do have other things that must be done. Music is one. I love music, I love to sing and I've made that a part of my life now because it helps keep everything else going. It uses some other part of my mind, so it's restful.

Also, I have the jewelry art for when I just don't want to stare at another blank page. It also uses some other part of my brain. Working with line and color, shape and texture is also another way of feeding the writing.

When I was on bed rest a year or so ago, I couldn't sit up to write. All I could do was lay on my back, maybe slightly propped up on pillows, and watch tv or read. I actually went back to knitting (something I don't often do) just to have my hands moving. MY concentration was such that I couldn't read anyway, or even watch a movie -- but I could quietly count stitches in my head. And, like everything that passes through me, it became something else in my stock of writer images I can draw on.

Sometimes I think I do other things just to stock up on the writing.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I would probably do the same things I do now... work, spend time with the lady, movies and barhopping, raise mules, etc.

I guess I'd just be me without the writing.

I was always a better speaker.

 

[Liar]

... you didn't write in your leisure time, how would you occupy those empty hours?

I don't write much. So I'd continue doing what I do now. Mamely make noises and call them music.

 

[elsol]

Read.

Like come on, yoh..

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[she_is_my_addiction]

So what would you do if your Muse suddenly packed his / her bags?

Scheherazade

I'm in that spot right now. I've got a good start (so I think) and I got stuck. No idea what to do.