July 29, 2003

• Write some more stories.
• Think up some ideas for stories.
• Get some paper or a thousand-dollar machine to record all of these ideas for stories.
• Think about how much writing up a list of ideas is like writing the actual stories.
• Laugh out loud about how silly it would be to write a story about someone with writer's block.
• Stop laughing suddenly - some of your best friends have had writer's block - besides this, you are in an internet cafe and people are watching. In a related note, the internet here is delicious.
• Pour a little on the ground for your friends with writer's block.
• Think about how tragic it would be if you were writing on a piece of paper somewhere - writing ideas or a story - and it was lost from you by some wind or a really agressive bird, and then you had to rewrite whatever you were writing and you couldn't remember it all and you thought it was really good and now the bird has it and can't even understand it.
• Save the document you are working on every three seconds like a nervous tick. Ctrl-S, Ctrl-S after every sentence.
• Who taught you that keyboard shortcut Ctrl-S, can't remember, getting off track now.
• Write down a new idea about how weird it would be if the bird stole your pen instead of the paper, and then you were left not being able to finish whatever you were working on - and the bird would have a really modern-looking nest, it being made with a pen and all.
• Write a story about a really artsy-bird who took his songs too seriously and all the other birds hated him.
• Change the list of ideas that you are working on from an ordered list (with numbers) to an unordered (without little dots by default, not dashes which is what most people do when they write notes - nobody colors in little dots - don't kid yourself) since these sort of things aren't really sequential.
• Change it back, since the ideas flow from each other they should be in order.
• Realize that you don't have a disk and go print out your list.
• Go to the printer, which is broken and besides that out of paper.

July 29, 2003 03:52 PM