Quirky Monday(Wednesday): Page 60

Wow. I haven't posted hardly anything for two weeks.

That's weird.

Making up for that, I missed Monday(ridiculous GRE prep, mumble, mumble, stuff), so you get your quirky Monday thing on Wednesday. Here goes:

When I write, I do weird things.

One of those things is that I don't number my pages until a certain point. This used to be bad cause I'd write on loose leaf and have to go back a figure out the right order--a nightmare!

And then I got a computer(this was back in the late 90s) which numbered the pages for me. Eureka! Of course, this was before I took writing classes that drummed "page number rules" into my head.

Now, numbers and me have never been friends. Like ever. And I'm one of those people who writes until she has nothing left to say that that's the end of it. And I hate creative boundaries--which, in my opinion, is what "page number rules" are. Just as there is no real original story, there is no page number rule. Never has been, really. Unless it's an academic paper or something.

So when I write, rather than do the page count as I go, and worry that I'll "run out of room"(ha ha), I write whatever it is until creativity needs a break. Then, I go back and add the page numbers. Which is usually around page 60.

And you know, it does helpful things. Like give me a mini ego boost that I ground out 60 pages of whatever, which means that I'm 40%-60% of the way there, and gives me just the motivation I need to finish the darn thing.

As your mini-tidbit Tuesday, "Bright Smoke" is on page 60 as of last night. Which means that soon, I'll have something to post on Tuesdays.